A Public Conversation about the Social Innovation Fund

by Nathaniel Whittemore · 2009-12-23 12:05:00 UTC
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An exciting development last week was the Corporation for National and Community Service's release of the Notice of Funding Availability for the Social Innovation Fund that laid out how the fund was to be implemented. The corporation for national and community service is soliciting ideas and reflections about the Notice, and has recruited friends like Echoing Green to help them get the word out.

Unfortunately the comments are not public in any real way. The request is just to email the SIF with ideas. I don't think is a purposeful anti-transparency thing, by any stretch of the imagine, I just don't think the folks behind the SIF release how valuable not just public comment but public exchange can be in shaping ideas.

Demonstrating once again why I love him, Sean Stannard-Stockton has taken the initiative to remedy that situation and is inviting any one who feels comfortable to forward the comments they send to the Corporation for National and Community Service directly to him as well, which he will aggregate and syndicate on Tactical Philanthropy in order to start a more public conversation.

I will definitely be participating in this, and hope you do as well.

Nathaniel Whittemore is the founder of Assetmap. Previously he was the founding director of the Northwestern University Center for Global Engagement.
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