Nominate Your Favorite Social Innovator for Pop!Tech

by Nathaniel Whittemore · 2009-02-26 07:18:00 UTC
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FrontlineKen at Pop!Tech 2008 via Flickr

Pop!Tech is an annual conference that brings together some of the brightest and most creative minds in technology, civil society, and social entrepreneurship. Last year, they launched a Social Innovation Fellows Program, a high-impact mentorship and training program designed to help a select group of social startups with branding, social media, finance, leadership, and more.

They've just opened the nomination process for 2009 Fellows:

Fellows participate in an all-expenses-paid, multi-day intensive program focused on insights and tools for accelerating and scaling “big bet” innovations, such as branding, media relations, social/Web2.0 media, finance, leadership, digital storytelling, design for impact and organizational development. Interactive training sessions are led by eminent innovators and acknowledged leaders in these fields. Fellows then participate in and present briefly at Pop!Tech, the renowned thought leadership conference, which will take place this year from October 21-24, 2009 in Camden, Maine. Fellows receive prominent placement at the event, including arranged interviews and collaborative sessions with leading journalists and session with members of the Pop!Tech network dedicated to helping them amplify their work and professional profile. On a year-round basis, Fellows join a dynamic alumni network and have ongoing access to faculty and peer-to-peer mentoring opportunities. These relationships have resulted in significant media coverage, grants, venture financing and organizational support for previous year’s Fellows.

From all I hear, this is a tremendous program. They certainly know how to pick exceptional people, selecting among others last year Ken Banks (FrontlineSMS), Abby Falik (Global Citizen Year), and Erik Hersman (Ushahidi), who all get pretty regular air time on this blog.

So if you know a game-changing social innovator, head on over to the Pop!Tech site and nominate them!

Check out the announcement video:

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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