Social Innovation Lab — A place for community change makers to get new thinking and connections to advance their work 02/04/2015

• Social Innovation Lab — A place for community change makers to get new thinking and connections to advance their work
  The Social Innovation Labs started in 2012 in partnership with the Bush Foundation. In the past two years, more than 1,200 community change makers have participated in 11 lab events. Each lab has had a different theme, but all of them focused on the following overall goal and strategies: Our vision: All Minnesotans thrive in a socially just, ecologically sound, and economically sustainable ecosystem of social innovation. More about our vision: The fruits of the ecosystem and the cultural soil that makes it possible: visioniconStrategies to move toward this vision: 1. Learn new tools and ways of seeing things 2. Advance innovative projects 3. Connect with other change makers Simple rules for the Lab: 1. Bring an open heart, mind, and will  2. Listen to the part, whole, and greater whole 3. Attend to difference, privilege and disparity 4. Tango with different perspectives to seek unexpected sparks 5. Invite a balance of creativity and structure 6. Honor commitments
  Tags: connections, thinking, makers, social innovation, community building, change agents
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Oppsites

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• Oppsites
  OppSites is revolutionizing economic development by creating a single platform where cities and the investment community work together to unlock economic potential. Cities can identify districts and sites, and share local knowledge about what they want to see built and where. Investors leverage this information to find underexposed real estate opportunities.
  Tags: economic development, opportunity sites, community investment
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Aspiration | Better Tools for a Better World 05/02/2014

• Aspiration | Better Tools for a Better World
  Aspiration's mission is to connect nonprofit organizations, foundations and activists with software solutions and technology skills that help them better carry out their missions. We want those working for social justice to be able to find and use the best software available, so that they maximize their effectiveness and impact and, in turn, change the world.
  Tags: technology, techtools, software, nonprofit, change agents, social enterprise
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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NatCAN - National Community Activists Network and Loughborough Junction Action Group (LJAG) | Loughborough Junction Action Group 03/18/2014

• NatCAN - National Community Activists Network
  Welcome to NatCAN, the National Community Activists' Network.Join us to get advice and support with anything you're trying to do to make the world, or just your part of it, a better place.Meet other people trying to get things done in your area by joining your Regional Discussion Group.
  Tags: community empowerment, community engagement, community activists, change agents, networking
  • - By Brian G. Dowling
• Loughborough Junction Action Group (LJAG) | Loughborough Junction Action Group
  The Loughborough Junction Action Group, or LJAG, is an independent group of people who live or work in Loughborough Junction in south-east London. We share the common aim of regenerating and improving the area and the lives of the people who live there.We are embedded in our diverse and vibrant neighbourhood and hold festivals, street parties and monthly gatherings, literary and film events and organise arts activities in local schools. Our members work with many local organisations, such as tenants’ and residents’ associations, community initiatives such as Building Communities in Coldharbour and the Big Local, which are working on projects designed to empower local people, improve community cohesion and enhance neighbourhood facilities.
  Tags: neighborhoods, community building, community empowerment
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Changeology Enabling Change 02/28/2014

• Changeology Enabling Change
  Changeologists everywhere: people who are focused on making change happen in their communities, workplaces, and organisations. It's about "what works" in enabling change in fields like sustainability, health, road safety, natural resource management and emergency management. The focus is on ways of thinking that challenge our assumptions, on innovative tools, products, and resources, and on new processes, especially those for facilitating highly diverse groups. It's a rapidly changing field, with plenty to be inspired about, and always something new.
  Tags: change management', change agents, change
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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