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Future trends for innovative cities
Foundation: Fuller Foundation, Johnson Foundation, McConnell Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

While every city is different and faces its own difficulties, what they all have in common is the need for innovative approaches to help solve...more

Bricks Social Innovation Research Collaboration Platform (Sircp)
Foundation: Fuller Foundation, Johnson Foundation, McConnell Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

BRICKS aims to find innovative solutions to social challenges in Hong Kong by fostering collaboration between higher education institutes, NGOs, social enterprises and other organisations that...more

Sabin Institute
Foundation: Fuller Foundation, Johnson Foundation, McConnell Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Created in 2005, the Sabin Institute has the purpose of fostering social ... Social innovation: broadening the narrative around social innovation in...more

Two fire-safety grants awarded in Butte County
Foundation: McConnell Foundation

The Fire Safe Council's grant came from $33 million allocated from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund for California Climate Investments. That's...more

SIX Funders Node Retreat: Risk, legitimacy and philanthropy
Foundation: Fuller Foundation, Johnson Foundation, McConnell Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

In an era where the legitimacy and authenticity of foundations is being questioned, how can we encourage the philanthropic sector to take more...more

Breakfast on corporate social innovation with SIX, Nesta and McConnell
Foundation: Fuller Foundation, Johnson Foundation, McConnell Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

On 22nd February, SIX and Global Council partners Nesta and the McConnell Foundation hosted a breakfast on corporate social innovation...more

A Co-Creation Story: Reflections on Social Innovation™s Coming-of-Age Moment
Foundation: McConnell Foundation

Date of PDF Download: January 26, 2019. A Co-Creation Story: Reflections on Social. Innovation's Coming-of-Age Moment. By Stephen Huddart...more

The state of social innovation in 2019
Foundation: Fuller Foundation, Johnson Foundation, McConnell Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Over the last 10 years, SIX has developed a broad view of what social innovation looks like in different parts of the world. We've seen how...more

Ottawa just quietly launched a new kind of capitalism
Foundation: McConnell Foundation

It was a key recommendation of the government-appointed Social Innovation and Social Finance Strategy Co-Creation Steering Group,...more

Feds' social-finance pledge turns Canada from 'laggard' to leader, experts say
Foundation: McConnell Foundation

... with that level of commitment,” said James Tansey of the University of British Columbia's Sauder Centre for Social Innovation and Impact...more



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