Social Innovation

A report developed by Pete Plastrik for the Ford Foundation that looks at best practices in the scaling of social innovations focused on asset building for low income communities and individuals.

Four slides on the value of disciplined frameworks in systems change.

A discussion of three kinds of social innovation strategies typically pursued by foundations – development of individual innovations; development of professional practice fields; and development of places – and how they are different and require different investment approaches.

An overview of INC’s approach to influencing change in large complex systems.

How to develop innovation infrastructure at the community level. (Word version)

How to develop innovation infrastructure at the community level. (PPT version)

A Word document description of best practices for innovation development.

INC experience with best practices supporting the development of specific social innovations.

An article developed for (but not published by) the Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) on how to promote social innovation in places.

An article written by Pete Plastrik of INC and Geoff Mulgan, President of the Young Foundation in the UK, on strategies for how to accelerate the development of social innovations in the US.

A Word document describing INC’s approach to sector innovation hubs and networks.

Ideas on how sector hubs and networks can serve as “social innovation R&D” catalysts.

This slide show describes the overall INC approach to social innovation.

A complete description of the proposed operating systems for the Charitable Asset Stewards business.

Word document describing our proposed business design for committing working business assets to charitable purposes.