Author: Stephen Goldsmith
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470604077
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
THE POWER of SOCIAL INNOVATION Civic leaders across the U.S. and throughout the world are discovering creative ways to overcome the obstacles that seal the doors of opportunity for too many. These inspiring individuals believe that within our communities lie the entrepreneurial spirit, compassion, and resources to make progress in such critical areas as education, housing, and economic self-reliance. Real progress requires that we take bold action and leverage our strengths for the greater good. The Power of Social Innovation offers public officials, social entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and individual citizens the insights and skills to create healthier communities and promote innovative solutions to public and social problems. This seminal work is based on Stephen Goldsmith's decades of experience, extensive ongoing research, and interviews with 100+ top leaders from a wide variety of sectors. Goldsmith shows that everyday citizens can themselves produce extraordinary social change. The book explores the levers and guiding principles used by champions of civic progress who drive new organizations, new interventions, or new policies to enhance social conditions. The Power of Social Innovation features illustrative case studies of change-oriented philanthropists, public officials, and civic leaders. While all collaborate across sectors, they run both start-ups and established organizations such as the New York City public schools, United Way of America, the United Negro College Fund, and Teach For America. The book shows the catalyzing role each plays in transforming a community's social service delivery systems. To complement the book's myriad tools and case studies,The Power of Social Innovation web site (www.powerofsocialinnovation.com) provides links to relevant Harvard research as well as additional helpful resources.
The Power of Social Innovation
Author: Stephen Goldsmith
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470604077
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
THE POWER of SOCIAL INNOVATION Civic leaders across the U.S. and throughout the world are discovering creative ways to overcome the obstacles that seal the doors of opportunity for too many. These inspiring individuals believe that within our communities lie the entrepreneurial spirit, compassion, and resources to make progress in such critical areas as education, housing, and economic self-reliance. Real progress requires that we take bold action and leverage our strengths for the greater good. The Power of Social Innovation offers public officials, social entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and individual citizens the insights and skills to create healthier communities and promote innovative solutions to public and social problems. This seminal work is based on Stephen Goldsmith's decades of experience, extensive ongoing research, and interviews with 100+ top leaders from a wide variety of sectors. Goldsmith shows that everyday citizens can themselves produce extraordinary social change. The book explores the levers and guiding principles used by champions of civic progress who drive new organizations, new interventions, or new policies to enhance social conditions. The Power of Social Innovation features illustrative case studies of change-oriented philanthropists, public officials, and civic leaders. While all collaborate across sectors, they run both start-ups and established organizations such as the New York City public schools, United Way of America, the United Negro College Fund, and Teach For America. The book shows the catalyzing role each plays in transforming a community's social service delivery systems. To complement the book's myriad tools and case studies,The Power of Social Innovation web site (www.powerofsocialinnovation.com) provides links to relevant Harvard research as well as additional helpful resources.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470604077
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
THE POWER of SOCIAL INNOVATION Civic leaders across the U.S. and throughout the world are discovering creative ways to overcome the obstacles that seal the doors of opportunity for too many. These inspiring individuals believe that within our communities lie the entrepreneurial spirit, compassion, and resources to make progress in such critical areas as education, housing, and economic self-reliance. Real progress requires that we take bold action and leverage our strengths for the greater good. The Power of Social Innovation offers public officials, social entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and individual citizens the insights and skills to create healthier communities and promote innovative solutions to public and social problems. This seminal work is based on Stephen Goldsmith's decades of experience, extensive ongoing research, and interviews with 100+ top leaders from a wide variety of sectors. Goldsmith shows that everyday citizens can themselves produce extraordinary social change. The book explores the levers and guiding principles used by champions of civic progress who drive new organizations, new interventions, or new policies to enhance social conditions. The Power of Social Innovation features illustrative case studies of change-oriented philanthropists, public officials, and civic leaders. While all collaborate across sectors, they run both start-ups and established organizations such as the New York City public schools, United Way of America, the United Negro College Fund, and Teach For America. The book shows the catalyzing role each plays in transforming a community's social service delivery systems. To complement the book's myriad tools and case studies,The Power of Social Innovation web site (www.powerofsocialinnovation.com) provides links to relevant Harvard research as well as additional helpful resources.
Civic Entrepreneurship
Author: Charles Leadbeater
Publisher: Demos
ISBN: 1898309396
Category : Civic improvement
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
Public sector managers are under increasing pressure to deliver better services but, despite governemnt reforms of recent years, they still encounter significant barriers. The public sector is still too concerned with outputs rather than achieving socially valubale outcomes. This book argues that these problems can be faced and overcome. By analysing five case studies, the authors show how people who have the skills and attitude to become civic entrepreneurs can harness new ideas, promote partnerships and develop innovative solutions to local problems. The work of the civic entrepreneurs described in this book has revitalized their organizations and led to improved outcomes for their communities.
Publisher: Demos
ISBN: 1898309396
Category : Civic improvement
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
Public sector managers are under increasing pressure to deliver better services but, despite governemnt reforms of recent years, they still encounter significant barriers. The public sector is still too concerned with outputs rather than achieving socially valubale outcomes. This book argues that these problems can be faced and overcome. By analysing five case studies, the authors show how people who have the skills and attitude to become civic entrepreneurs can harness new ideas, promote partnerships and develop innovative solutions to local problems. The work of the civic entrepreneurs described in this book has revitalized their organizations and led to improved outcomes for their communities.
Civic Entrepreneurship
Author: Charles Leadbeater
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Category : County services
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Category : County services
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Pew Civic Entrepreneur Initiative
Author: Pew Civic Entrepreneur Initiative
Publisher:
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Category : Community leadership
Languages : en
Pages : 1
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Publisher:
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Category : Community leadership
Languages : en
Pages : 1
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A Civic Entrepreneur
Author: Monty Jones
Publisher: Briscoe Ctr for Amer History Ut-Austin
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
This biography details the life and career of George Kozmetsky, a prominent twentieth-century Texas educator, businessman, technology innovator, and philanthropist.
Publisher: Briscoe Ctr for Amer History Ut-Austin
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
This biography details the life and career of George Kozmetsky, a prominent twentieth-century Texas educator, businessman, technology innovator, and philanthropist.
Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector
Author: Jane Wei-Skillern
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1412951372
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Written for students and practitioners of social entrepreneurship, this text is about the opportunity and challenge of applying leadership skills and entrepreneurial talents creatively and appropriately to create social value.
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1412951372
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Written for students and practitioners of social entrepreneurship, this text is about the opportunity and challenge of applying leadership skills and entrepreneurial talents creatively and appropriately to create social value.
A Civic Entrepreneur
Author: Monty Jones (Public affairs official)
Publisher:
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Category : Businesspeople
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Category : Businesspeople
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Grassroots Leaders for a New Economy
Author: Douglas C. Henton
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Outlines the leadership qualities of the group of Californian business, government, education and community leaders who formed a collaborative regional alliance called Joint Venture: Silicon Valley.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Outlines the leadership qualities of the group of Californian business, government, education and community leaders who formed a collaborative regional alliance called Joint Venture: Silicon Valley.
Democratic Governance and Social Entrepreneurship
Author: Denise M. Horn
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135073139
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
This book explores the connection between strong democracy and neoliberal development schemes based on the concept of ‘social entrepreneurship’ in Thailand and Southern India. With an original approach, this book addresses the intersection between emerging approaches to development; namely microfinance, microenterprise, and social entrepreneurship, and the ability of societies to generate their own public goods without state assistance. Utilizing observation, fieldwork, and practice in Northern Thailand and Southern India, as well as secondary sources from the southern Asia region more generally, the author examines the challenges of democratic governance and generation of public goods where civil society and democracy, as development strategies, have become less meaningful to citizens across the developing world than micro-development. The author argues that these approaches to development have impacts on development and civil society building, but do not necessarily amount to political empowerment, raising important questions for civic participation in the state when the state is no longer viewed as the locus of public goods and democratic governance. Presenting a new theoretical approach to understanding the changing paradigm of development and political participation, Democratic Governance and Social Entrepreneurship will be of interest to students and scholars of development politics, political economy and governance.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135073139
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
This book explores the connection between strong democracy and neoliberal development schemes based on the concept of ‘social entrepreneurship’ in Thailand and Southern India. With an original approach, this book addresses the intersection between emerging approaches to development; namely microfinance, microenterprise, and social entrepreneurship, and the ability of societies to generate their own public goods without state assistance. Utilizing observation, fieldwork, and practice in Northern Thailand and Southern India, as well as secondary sources from the southern Asia region more generally, the author examines the challenges of democratic governance and generation of public goods where civil society and democracy, as development strategies, have become less meaningful to citizens across the developing world than micro-development. The author argues that these approaches to development have impacts on development and civil society building, but do not necessarily amount to political empowerment, raising important questions for civic participation in the state when the state is no longer viewed as the locus of public goods and democratic governance. Presenting a new theoretical approach to understanding the changing paradigm of development and political participation, Democratic Governance and Social Entrepreneurship will be of interest to students and scholars of development politics, political economy and governance.
Civic Entrepreneurship: Global synthesis
Author:
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ISBN: 9780972291903
Category : Sustainable development
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9780972291903
Category : Sustainable development
Languages : en
Pages :
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