As part of our partnership with Innovation Network for Communities (INC), we spent a week in mid-July at the Social Innovation eXchange (SIX) with 120 social innovation leaders from 24 countries.
Our two-part report ran this week at the nuPOLIS blog.

Part 1 covers our observations about the field of social innovation.  In short, the field of [...]

Don Tapscott, futurist and author of Wikinomics, posted a two-minute video (tip: Kevin Johansen) suggest that it’s time to shift how we think about financial risk.  His proposal is based on two concepts:

financial institutions should be sharing intellectual property. Specifically, basic risk models should be shared in a version of the creative commons, with competition [...]

In the world of sustainable enterprise, the tension between focusing on ‘mission’ (ie: do-gooding) and ‘business’ (ie: paying the bills) is extraordinary.  Whether the enterprise is for-profit or non-profit, these challenges bring leaders to the brink of their capacity, and pit employees and board members against one another across unnecessarily stark lines.
Further complicating the picture [...]

Zoo York — home of huge banker bonuses (again, already) and esteem-crushing ad campaigns (not so much, these days) — would appear from a distance to be an unlikely home to an interesting sustainability network.  A recent 24-hour layover revealed that the seeds of a green apple are germinating throughout the city.

It’s arrogant to think that anyone can tell the story of Walter Cronkite better than his closest friends, who are now the elder statesmen of the rapidly fading era of solid, professional journalism.  Cronkite was a pillar of our democracy in a way that may never be replicated.  This is more than just sad — [...]

We’ll be blogging deeper thoughts later, but tune in to the live twitter feed at #sixlisbon on Twitter.  Lots of great collaboration from 100 leaders in 24 countries.

Sitting in a conference room in Portugal, some 3,000 air miles away from home, we post a blog and prediction market about ethical travel.
As we wrote in our new feature at nuPOLIS,
Air travel is the most damaging form of travel when it comes to global warming — yet most of us “social change agents” depend [...]

Fascinating work continues at nuance partners Innovation Network for Communities (INC) and the nuPOLIS blogsite, newsfeed and shared information resource focusing on scalable social innovations for communities.  Please review and enjoy this update put together for the people who are just getting to know our work:

Social entrepreneurs are often challenged by the legal structure of their new enterprise.  These entrepreneurs weigh a long list of pros and cons between for-profit and non-profit.  A new entity, the Low-Profit Limited Liability Company (L3C).
This email from Martin Montero (@montero on Twitter — worthy of a follow), co-founder of the Austin Social Innovation Hub [...]