RESOURCES ON SOCIAL INNOVATION

Social Innovation Catalysts:  The social innovation ecosystem is flourishing.   Here are inspiring sources and places for innovation insights, incubators, training and more.

• Ashoka, the 30+ year old “granddaddy” of social entrepreneur incubators:  http://usa.ashoka.org/

• British Columbia Social Innovation Council:  http://pascalobservatory.org/pascalnow/blogentry/british-columbia-canada-social-innovation-council-releases-final-report

• Centre for Social Innovation in Canada, rich source of models, ideas, training, incubator and more:    http://socialinnovation.ca

• DESIGN COUNCIL in England:  http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/our-work/challenges/

• Incommons — new venture in Minnesota for social innovation gatherings, challenges and connections to people and organizations.  http://www.incommons.org/about

• Poptech Social innovation labs and fellows program:   http://poptech.org/fellows

• ISKME turning educators into innovators:  http://www.iskme.org/

• SpringboardInnovation (for social innovation)   in Portland.   Among other things, they have a social innovation incubator called Hatch:  http://blog.springboardinnovation.org/

• Code for America:  accelerator for social innovations in government using information technology:   http://codeforamerica.org/accelerator/

• Bill Gross’s innovation incubator, the Idea Lab  http://www.idealab.com/

• White House:  Office of Social Innovation:   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Social_Innovation_and_Civic_Participation

Social Innovation News:

• 10 Great Social innovation reads (every month)  from Social Velocity http://texasenetworks.com/2012/02/06/10-great-social-innovation-reads-january-2012/
• Stanford Social Innovation Review:  http://www.ssireview.org/