CivicDictionary™	Defining a Better World

HOME | | A-Z CivicDictionary | | WORDS BY TOPIC | | ABOUT | | BLOG | | CONTACT

social innovation - the process of creating large scale, sustainable, breakthrough solutions to urgent social challenges. >> SCALE, SUSTAINABLE, SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR, SOCIAL VENTURE PHILANTHROPY

Social Innovation Fund (SIF) - established in the Service America Act (effective October 1, 2009) passed by U.S. Congress to provide growth capital to innovative nonprofit organizations. Funding contingent on Congressional budget approval. Administered by Corporation for National and Community Service: "Most of the SIF funds will be awarded to existing intermediary grantmaking institutions through a competitive, peer-reviewed process."

>> Connections <<

"America Forward’s vision is that one day, our leaders and citizens will work together to foster innovation in the social sector, identify what works, and grow the best solutions to wherever they are needed. Our objectives are two-fold: 1) to introduce social entrepreneurship into the national dialogue, helping to fuel a discussion about new, more effective ways to solve domestic problems; and 2) to advance a policy agenda that will create an infrastructure for social entrepreneurs and government to act together to scale the impact of solutions that work."




Stanford Social Innovation Review
"A novel solution to a social problem that is more effective, efficient, sustainable, or just than existing solutions and for which the value created accrues primarily to society as a whole rather than private individuals."

SOURCE: James A. Phills Jr, Kriss Deiglmeier, Dale T. Miller, Rediscovering Social Innovation, Fall 2008.

CivicDictionary.com™ Defining a better world.

© 1997-2009 Wendy Bay Lewis. All Rights Reserved.