Live Stream: Social Innovation Is Bigger In Texas

by Nathaniel Whittemore · 2009-12-08 21:57:00 UTC
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On Wednesday morning, December 9th at 8:30 AM PST, social innovation junkies everywhere will have a chance to share a conversation about regional and national governmental-social entrepreneurship partnerships, live from the Texas Governor's Nonprofit Leadership Conference.

Thanks to Live Stream (and a killer social media team) you can watch the video below.

The conversation is a particularly relevant one. As the fields of social entrepreneurship and investing expand, more and more folks are thinking locally and regionally. A great example is the upcoming Social Venture Conference - Miami.

Learn more from the conference organizers after the break:

Organizations focusing on today's social innovations range from a handful experienced players (Root Cause, Ashoka, Standford Social Innovation Review) to a growing presences of regional nonprofits and/or social enterprises addressing fundamental community problems.  With a newly established federal agenda to stimulate and nurture social innovation in this country, how will Sonal Shah, head of the White House Office of Social Innovation create a national agenda sparked by efforts on the ground that can spread across the country and line up with other successful global initiatives such as the United Kingdom’s Office of the Third Sector and Canada’s growing Centers for Social Innovation?

On Wednesday December 9 at 10:30 CST, during the Governor’s Nonprofit Leadership Conference, Business Boomer's live webcast will feature a distinct panel of leaders to discuss collaborative efforts that stimulate socially innovative activities in order to help answer that question.
Anne DeHaro, Public Affairs Director and host of Clear Channel Radio, will be facilitate a discussion and field questions from an online audience as she interview panelists Andrew Wolk, CEO of Rootcause (www.rootcause.org), Elizabeth Darling, CEO of OneStar Foundation (www.onestarfoundation.org), & Stacy Caldwell, Executive Director of Dallas Social Venture Partners (www.dsvp.org).
Topics include:
  • Texas Social Innovation Initiative announcement & vision
  • How social innovation is changing the way nonprofits do business

  • Impact investing & performance measurement

  • Collaboration at the global, national, state, and local levels

    • 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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