Great post. There’s been a lot of talk by the new admin about the spirit of service recently. I think this is one area where innovation will happen - and where the investment that you refer to should be focused, in part. The opportunities are ripe and there parallel models in the private sector already exist. Check out this article I wrote on the topic called: “Information Age Volunteerism - Open Sourced! Crowdsourced!” @ http://techpresident.com/blog-entry/information-age-volunteerism-open-sourced-crowdsourced
You’ll find the concept of a social investment fund for social enterprise defined in the paper shown in the link above. It was delivered in October 2006 and made public the following year as news articles:
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BY ben rigby
ON February 26, 2009 03:03 PM
Great post. There’s been a lot of talk by the new admin about the spirit of service recently. I think this is one area where innovation will happen - and where the investment that you refer to should be focused, in part. The opportunities are ripe and there parallel models in the private sector already exist. Check out this article I wrote on the topic called: “Information Age Volunteerism - Open Sourced! Crowdsourced!” @ http://techpresident.com/blog-entry/information-age-volunteerism-open-sourced-crowdsourced
cheers,
ben rigby (Stanford ‘95)
BY Jeff Mowatt
ON June 30, 2009 01:21 AM
You’ll find the concept of a social investment fund for social enterprise defined in the paper shown in the link above. It was delivered in October 2006 and made public the following year as news articles:
http://en.for-ua.com/analytics/2007/08/06/121201.html
http://en.for-ua.com/analytics/2007/08/09/110003.html
Jeff Mowatt
BY Jeff Mowatt
ON June 30, 2009 01:23 AM
Sorry the “link above” I referred to wasn’t shown
http://en.for-ua.com/analytics/2007/08/09/110003.html