What is Placemaking? - Project for Public Spaces
WHAT IF WE BUILT OUR COMMUNITIES AROUND PLACES? As both an overarching idea and a hands-on approach for improving a neighborhood, city, or region, Placemaking inspires people to collectively reimagine and reinvent public spaces as the heart of every community. Strengthening the connection between people and the places they share, Placemaking refers to a collaborative process by which we can shape our public realm in order to maximize shared value. More than just promoting better urban design, Placemaking facilitates creative patterns of use, paying particular attention to the physical, cultural, and social identities that define a place and support its ongoing evolution.
- - By Brian G. Dowling
Shared value is a management strategy in which companies find business opportunities in social problems. While philanthropy and CSR focus efforts focus on “giving back” or minimizing the harm business has on society, shared value focuses company leaders on maximizing the competitive value of solving social problems in new customers and markets, cost savings, talent retention, and more.
- - By Brian G. Dowling
Volans works to catalyze breakthrough change and to redefine the market rules for business. As a certified B Corporation, we aim to be the change we want to see in the world.
- - By Brian G. Dowling
We are a voluntary initiative based on CEO commitments to implement universal sustainability principles and to take steps to support UN goals.
- - By Brian G. Dowling
Project Breakthrough - Growing the Business of Tomorrow
Project Breakthrough connects mainstream companies with next generation innovators and entrepreneurs – and shines a spotlight on the best examples of sustainable innovation. In this way, it aims to stimulate transformative insight and corporate action – geared towards the sense of urgency and stretch ambitions outlined by the SDGs.
- - By Brian G. Dowling
Business & Sustainable Development Commission | BSDC
The core of our mission is to make a powerful case—supported by sound evidence, rigorous research and compelling real-world examples—for why business leaders should seize upon sustainable development as the greatest opportunity of a lifetime. We will show how the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide the private sector with a framework for achieving this market shift. The Business Commission’s flagship report, to be published in January 2017, will serve as the foundation from which we will launch a number of activities to inspire and mobilise a growing number of business leaders to align their companies with social and environmental impact.
- - By Brian G. Dowling
- - By Brian G. Dowling
The 50 State Solution was conceived in early 2016 by California Forward (CA Fwd) as a transpartisan effort to build supportive infrastructure--and a platform for sharing information and ideas--among those working on political reform at the state level. While CA Fwd has served as the initiator and early catalyst of the effort, the vision for 50 State Solution is that it becomes an ongoing effort with shared leadership from the political reform community. The goal of the effort is explicitly not to make sure every organization is doing the same work or working on the same issue. Instead, the goal is create a learning community where reformers can share stories of success and failure, find allies, create coalitions and build community.
- - By Brian G. Dowling
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