Social Innovation Forum
How can we create an alternative philanthropic marketplace that will encourage social investors to invest and re-invest in the organizations best positioned to chip away at the root causes of our social problems? What progress could we make in solving social problems with a forum for nonprofits based on the for-profit venture-capital forum?
The Social Innovation Forum accelerates the development of enduring solutions to social problems by directing an alternative flow of local resources to innovative, results-oriented organizations striving for efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability. Through an annual rigorous selection process, we choose Social Innovators demonstrating promising approaches to addressing specific social problems. We provide our Social Innovators with strategy consulting, executive coaching, and introductions to a Philanthropic Investment Community made up of government leaders, foundations, and individual donors who are willing to offer time, talent, relationships, and money. Our aspiration is to build a Philanthropic Investment Community that will invest and re-invest resources based on performance, in order to increase progress in solving pressing social problems.
More on the Social Innovation Forum
Our most recent report on our impact:
2007 Social Innovation Forum Report Card
The Business of Social Change: Root Cause’s Social Innovation Forum Models a New Approach to Funding Nonprofits Locally
This 2006 interview with founder Andrew Wolk makes the case for the Social Innovation Forum.