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    Social Innovation Fund: Promise or pie-in-the-sky?

    Social Innovation Fund: Promise or pie-in-the-sky?

    July 2, 11:40 PM

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    President ObamaHow can your non-profit be part of the President’s new Social Innovation Fund?

    Good question.

    Congress hasn’t yet appropriated the $50 million Obama says the government will spend on this endeavor. But in a June 30 press briefing, he said White House officials will travel across the country to find “the most promising nonprofits in America” as a basis for expanding innovative social projects throughout the country.

    “Solutions to America's challenges are being developed every day at the grass roots -- and government shouldn't be supplanting those efforts, it should be supporting those efforts,” President Obama said.

    No one knows yet how the White House staffers will find these “promising nonprofits” or what the criteria will be for their selection.

    Call me skeptical, but I worry about people finding effective non-profits by fanning out across the country and trying to visit them in person.

    Have you heard about this fund? What are your thoughts?

    P.S. A great source of inspiration for your next CEO speech: Michelle Obama’s remarks at TIME 100 Most Influential People Awards
     

    AP Photo/Ron Edmonds

     


    For more info: 
    White House blog: “What is the Social Innovation Fund?”

    via examiner.com

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