Thank you to David Smith, Executive Director of the National Conference on Citizenship, for inviting ammado to be one of the invited organizations participating today at the national event on citizenship and Citizen 2.0 at the Library of Congress. I am writing to provide notes and observations from the morning session, Social Innovation in Civic Life, moderated by Jean Case, CEO of The Case Foundation. Panelists include Sonal Shah, Director of the White House Office on Social Innovation; Diana Wells, President of Ashoka; Justin Rockefeller, co-founder of Generation Engage and VP of Uhuru Capital Mgmt; and Barbara Bush, President, Global Health Corps.
A beginning thought to set the stage by Jean Case: The pace of social change is not where early innovators expected it to be.....
Sonal Shah: The new White Office of Social Innovation is focused in three areas: 1)Capital markets for the social sector, growth capital to grow nonprofit programs....establishing a social innovation fund; 2) Private/public sector partnerships, and 3) Expanding service.
Diana Wells, Ashoka: What is social innovation? Replacing old models with new change models, revolutionizing practice and transformation, and supporting individuals and their ideas whatever sector. A key--starting at a young age, "youth years," support youth and their dreams for change. Also in Diana's comments, the proxy measures developed by Ashoka to measure ROI in the social sector.
Justin Rockefeller: Millennial generation has strong views of what the private sector should do to support the public good. 060606 is the day Warren Buffett made its transformational gift to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. 090909 is the day that this conference takes the new commitment to social change to the next level.
Barbara Bush: Always American models going into the world, but models outside that inform practices here......Global Health Corp fellows are global, bringing and sharing best practices to whatever country, whatever community, whatever setting is needed. One example: a young person working for Gap in supply chain management now a fellow applying those skills, knowledge to delivery of medicines in Rwanda.
Role of technology--communications out and in, feedback loops; use technology in the development of programs; using technology to inspire a new generation, in the classroom;
Role of private sector in social innovation--leaders are IBM,Deloitte in corporate volunteerism; individuals rethinking their jobs; developing skills in new environments.
More inputs from the live stream at www.ncoc.net/conference
