Increasingly, leaders are acknowledging that isolated approaches to fixing the most challenging social problems—problems such as growing economic disparity and failing urban systems—have not worked. As a consequence, there is a growing interest in approaches to social change that transcend any one sector, locale, or issue. My organization, Living Cities, created the Integration Initiative (TII) partly in response to that trend. Launched in 2010, TII is an $85 million effort to help…

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