July Update For nuPOLIS
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:
- Highlights from the blog — analysis, commentary, and trend spotting about accelerating social innovation in the U.S. — include:
- The Rise of Climate Justice
- Government-Driven Social Innovation: Caution Advised
- Car Sharing in Chicago: Extending the Transit System
- An Education “Supply Side” Problem: How To Replace Failing Schools?
- Transnational Innovation: Diaspora’s Hidden Benefits
- Net-Centric Social Impact: Decentralized Organizing for Change
- Chapters from a new book about community-based innovation, coauthored by Pete and Theodore Staton.
- A social innovation news feed culled from leading sources in several categories.
- INC’s July update on what we’re working on right now, including a Network Health Scorecard for use by network builders, a “climate justice” study, and the “Broadband is Green” project, a collaboration with Graham Richard, former mayor of Ft. Wayne, Indiana.
Social innovators and anyone else working on the critical issues are invited to join, discuss, subscribe and contribute.