Examples of Social Innovation
Examples
Some examples of social innovations…
- 10 world-changing social innovations (The Young Foundation)
- President Obama’s examples (Press Conference June 30 2009)
- HopeLab – “a nonprofit organization that combines rigorous research with innovative solutions to improve the health and quality of life of young people with chronic illness.
- Harlem’s Children Zone
- Genesys Works – “that enables inner-city high school students to break through barriers and discover through meaningful work experience that they can succeed as professionals in the corporate world”.
- Bonnie Clac – “car loans and counselling”
- Admission Possible -”dedicated to helping promising, low-income young people prepare for and earn admission to college”.
- Rising Tide Capital – “to assist struggling entrepreneurs and communities to build strong businesses that transform lives, strengthen families and create vibrant, sustainable neighborhoods”.
- Teach for America – “to build the movement to eliminate educational inequity by enlisting our nation’s most promising future leaders in the effort”.
- Examples from “Getting to Maybe: How the world is changed (Westley, Zimmerman & Patton, 2006) include:
- Live Aid
- The “Boston Miracle”
- Grameen Bank
- PLAN
- HIV/AIDS movement
- Roots of Empathy
- Palliative Care
- Opportunities 2000
- Hope Community & a Children’s Village
- Mothers Against Drink Driving
- Examples from How to change the world (Bornstein, 2007) include
- Rural electrification in Brazil and Fabio Rosa
- Nursing and Florance Nightingale
- Child protection in India and Jeroo Billimoria
- Assisted living for the disabled in Hungary and Erzebet Szekeres
- Reforming healthcare in Brazil and Vera Cordeiro
- College access in the US and J.B. Schramm.
- Care for AIDS patients in South Africa and Veronica Khosa
- Disability rights in India and Javed Abidi
- Facilitating innovation
- Innovation in process
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