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Social Innovation: Harnessing What Works to Address Critical National Challenges

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I've been hearing a lot about the Social Innovation Fund lately, an element of the Serve America Act. Some factors she feels can support social innovations' success are: Engaging the crowd and using the wisdom of the crowds to facilitate innovations coming through the pipeline. Trusting in the importance of new ideas.

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Women's Global Green Action Network: An Interview with Melinda Kramer

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From her Berkeley-based office, Melinda Kramer facilitates an international network of women leaders. Below is a transcript of an interview with her from the Big Vision Podcast. So our first exchange that we did with Global Exchange was called "Transformative Advocacy in Bolivia."

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

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New computer and internet technologies would facilitate direct connections between individual users anywhere in the world, using web- based platforms provided by companies like Craigslist, eBay, Airbnb, Uber, and Grubhub. Andrew Cox, “Is Instacart headed to be America’s top grocer?,” Freelancers predicted to become the S.

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