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Social Innovation: From the Community to the Region and Beyond. Karen Chapple University of California, Berkeley. Social Innovation. Models of community development Scale and sustainability Towards a theory of social innovation Impact. Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, 1967.
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Social Innovation: From the Community to the Region and Beyond Karen Chapple University of California, Berkeley
Social Innovation • Models of community development • Scale and sustainability • Towards a theory of social innovation • Impact
Per Scholas, South Bronx 1995
Great Communities Collaborative, SF Bay Area, 2006
Lurín River Basin, Lima, Peru
Winners build on existing institutions • Microenterprise and Schedule C (CFED, Aspen) • Energy Efficiency and MUSH (COWS) • Anchor Institutions (Democracy Collaborative) • Employment Social Enterprise (REDF)
Towards a theory of social innovation • Social innovation: combine methods, ideas, or institutions in unique ways to create new solutions to social and economic problems • Nonprofit governance literature • Regional economic development literature • Variation/diversity • Networked, learning region • Role of venture capitalists • Space
Revisiting the models • Bed-Stuy Restoration Corporation • Philadelphia Mural Arts Program • Per Scholas • Great Communities Collaborative • City Heights
If you don’t start the conversation, nothing will happen. - Per Scholas leader