Past Event Archive

Past

September 23, 2010: Root Cause’s Social Innovation Forum hosted an event featuring Social Innovation Fund Director Paul Carttar and the 2009 Social Innovators. The event focused on the challenges, benefits and lessons learned from using performance measurement as well as the role of investors. To listen to the full conference, click here.
April 12, 2010: Anand Dholakia, Susan Musinsky, and Colette Stanzler participated in the 2010 Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) National Conference: Unleashing Philanthropy's Potential.
April 17-18, 2010: Andrew Wolk spoke at the Global Health and Innovation Summit
January 20, 2010: Root Cause's Social Innovation Forum announced the 2010 Social Innovators and presented the 3rd Annual Social Innovation Forum Achievement Award to David Howse of the Boston Children's Chorus at an event at the Parkman House in Boston. See the press release here.
December 9-10, 2009: Andrew Wolk delivered a keynote address at the OneStar Foundation's Governor's Nonprofit Leadership Conference in Dallas, Texas − watch video from the live-streamed social media conference on partnerships and social innovation in Texas here.
November 17, 2009: Root Cause's Public Innovators initiative hosted an event in DC called Advancing Social Innovation in Government: Investing in Community Solutions, which brought together government leaders and social innovators to talk about the ways they approach social innovation and how to further the field. To listen to the government leaders panel, click here. To listen to the social innovators, click here.
- For more videos from the panel and interviews with attendees, please visit our YouTube channel.
November 13, 2009: Root Cause Consultant Abby Fung and Information Technology Manager Marc Baizman spoke about performance measurement and new trends in donor and contact management systems, respectively, at the Massachusetts Nonprofit Network/AGM Nonprofit Conference
October 29, 2009: Andrew Wolk spoke at the Massachusetts Council of Human Service Providers Convention
September 23, 2009: Julie Zack, Associate Director of Root Cause, presented on business planning for social impact at the 2009 East Coast Conference on Aging held by the American Society on Aging
September 1-4, 2009: Andrew Wolk spoke on a panel with Sonal Shah (White House Office of Social Innovation), Vanessa Kirsch (New Profit, Inc.), and Carla Javits (REDF), moderated by Jeffrey Bradach (Bridgespan), at the Social Capital Markets 2009 Conference
August 30, 2009: Anand Dholakia presented at the "Designing/Scaling Social Innovation" forum presented by SVP (Social Venture Partners) Tokyo at Keio University
July 15-17, 2009: Andrew Wolk presented at the Social Innovation eXchange Summer School 2009 on Recovery Through Innovation
June 30, 2009: Andrew Wolk attended a special event at the White House at which President Obama lays out his "Community Solutions Agenda"
June 2009: Andrew Wolk spoke at the Future Trends Forum in Madrid, Spain (view his presentation here)
May 28, 2009: Social Innovation Forum presented "Learning from Performance Measurement to Strengthen Social Impact"
May 4, 2009: Andrew facilitated a discussion on government engagement with social entrepreneurs at The Phoenix Project's Accelerating Social Entrepreneurship Conference in Washington, D.C.
April 16, 2009: CEO Andrew Wolk appeared in an "armchair keynote" discussion with Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu at the Social Enterprise Summit in New Orleans
April 15-17, 2009: Root Cause presented a Policy Track at the Social Enterprise Summit in New Orleans
April 14, 2009: The Social Innovation Forum: Approach and Impact
April 2, 2009: Social Enterprise: Nonprofit Earned Income Ventures, featuring More Than Words
March 30, 2009: School to Work: Creating Pathways for Productive Employment for Older Youth, featuring Maritime Apprenticeship Program, a Hull Lifesaving Museum Initiative
March 25, 2009: Making College Graduation a Reality: Preparing and Supporting Low-Income Students, featuring ACCESS
March 20, 2009: Getting the Best Possible Start: Supporting Children and Families through Early Childhood, featuring Bessie Tartt Wilson Children's Foundation
March 18, 2009: The Promise of Healthy Aging: Fostering High Quality of Life among Older Adults, featuring Hearth Outreach Program
March 5, 2009: Empowering Disadvantaged Youth through the Arts, featuring RAW Art Works
March 1, 2009: CEO Andrew Wolk participated as speaker on a panel discussion on "Innovations in Philanthropy" at the Harvard Social Enterprise Conference
February 27, 2009: Colleen Gross Ebinger, Director of Public Innovators, spoke at Kravis-DeRoulet Leadership Conference, "Leading Social Change: Entrepreneurial Solutions, Cross-Sector Collaborations"
November 24, 2008: Andrew interviewed The Economist's Matthew Bishop at the Harvard Kennedy School. Watch the video
April 29, 2008: Andrew lead a roundtable discussion (see video clips at the bottom of the page) at the Aspen Institute on the release of a joint report, "Advancing Social Entrepreneurship"