Monthly Archives: September 2009

Seizing the opportunity for real innovation

September 21, 2009 – 3:30 pm

Sonal Shah, President Obama’s inaugural Director of the White House Office of Social Innovation, was here in the heartland of innovation for a whirlwind trip beginning with her appearance at SoCAP 2009 at Ft. Mason, and then meeting with a REDF-assembled group of leaders from REDF’s board and advisory council, social enterprise, business, foundations, and [...]

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Reflections on SOCAP 2009

September 10, 2009 – 12:01 pm

While it would have been in the category of “Ripley’s Believe It or Not” a few years ago – there is now a White House Office of Social Innovation led by the savvy Sonal Shah, who recently moved to D.C. after working at Google right here in the San Francisco Bay Area.  The dictionary definition [...]

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Job creation is the name of the game

September 3, 2009 – 11:06 am

The end of summer is always hot in more ways than one. Questions about the future hang in the humid air. Will unemployment get unstuck  from the stratosphere? Will spines be strong enough to pass health care reform? Will policymakers keep fantasizing that private philanthropy will bail out slashed public budgets? Will the social sector be creative [...]

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