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Editorials

Features the opinion of a provocative thought leader in a nonprofit, a socially responsibly business or a government agency.

As We Turn the Corner, We Reflect Back on an Exciting Year
August 2010 Tine Hansen-Turton and Nicholas Torres
Back to the Basics and Good Ideas; Let the Spirit of Innovation Prevail
April 2010 Nicholas Torres and Tine Hansen-Turton
How Social Enterprise Organizations Can Prosper in 2010
January 2010 Michael Wong
Lessons Learned from Answering the Million Dollar Question
January 2010 Kat Rosqueta
Paying Attention to Children’s Dental Care
January 2010 Paul DiLorenzo and Judy Gelinas
Thanks for the Republic – The Engine of Social Innovation
January 2010 Sondra Myers
The Pursuit of Progress
January 2010 Tine Hansen-Turton
Rocket Science or Teaching: Which is More Difficult?
December 2009 Nicholas Torres
Letting our Wild Things Go
November 2009 Tine Hansen-Turton
From Social Innovation to Community Leadership
October 2009 R. Andrew Swinney
Featured Social Innovations

Profiles an innovative, proven-effective (or proven-ineffective) solution to an important social, environmental or organizational problem.

Innovation in Government: Mayor Nutter’s Homeless Initiative
August 2010 Keri Salerno & Donna E.M. Bailey, Director, Special Project, Office of the Deputy Mayor for Health and Opportunity, City of Philadelphia
Nominate an Innovation: Children’s Scholarship Fund Philadelphia
August 2010 Meredith Rae Swinehart, Sandra Dewi Jacob, and Keri Salerno
Nominate an Innovation: Mighty Writers
August 2010 Written by Mandy Sandkuhler and Christina Miller
Nominate an Innovation: Champions of Caring
August 2010 Amy Cunningham, Emily Allen, and Alina Lucila-Osmunson
Academy In Manayunk (AIM): Changing Learning Differences from Deficits to Assets
May 2010 Ashley Martin, Da-In Kim, and Richard Kahn
Expanding the Reach of Youth Mentoring Through a Scalable Site-Based Model: Big Brothers Big Sisters Southeastern Pennsylvania’s Beyond School Walls Program
May 2010 Sara Lin, Christie Mun, and Jesse Moore
St. Christopher’s Foundation for Children: Bringing Preventive Pediatric Dental Care to Children in North Philadelphia
May 2010 Mikaela Levons
The Food Trust and the Fresh Food Financing Initiative: Eliminating “Food Deserts”
May 2010 Nicole Apollon Chirouze, Jennifer Atlas, and Parth Rajyaguru
Solutions for Progress and The Benefit Bank: A Community-Based Approach to Individual Self-Sufficiency
May 2010 Melanie Powell, Jalia Tucker, and Elizabeth Yim
Children’s Crisis Treatment Center (CcTC): Bringing Mental and Behavioral Health Care to Hard-to-Reach Populations
February 2010 Amy Schlosberg and Mikaela Levons
Pennsylvania Health Law Project (PHLP): Making Legal Representation Available to Vulnerable Groups
February 2010 Rahul Sanghavi and Rachel Kotok
Health Federation of Philadelphia: Better Client Outcomes Through Integrating Behavioral Health Care into Primary Care
February 2010 Blair Bodine and Yuan Shu
Congreso: Building Nonprofit Partnerships and Determining Their Financial Costs
February 2010 Jennifer Atlas and Iris Mireya Leon
MIMIC: Tackling the Root Causes of Juvenile Delinquency
February 2010 Amruta Ghanekar and Sara Taveras
Who Gave You Your First Break? WorkReady Philadelphia’s Innovative Approach to Stimulating Corporate Altruism on behalf of Inner-City Youth
January 2010 Daniel Kaufman and Cecilia Ramirez
Graduate! Philadelphia: Turning Unused Credits into College Degrees
January 2010 Amber Cameron and Anix Vyas
Health Promotion Council: A Little Engine That Did: Innovations in Organizational Culture Lead to Market Success in the Nonprofit Sector
October 2009 Harrison Newton and Eugenio Longoria Saenz
Family Practice and Counseling Network: A Nurse-led Social Innovation ensuring access to Primary Care
October 2009 Denise Nagle Bailey, Kate Taylor, Kara Malick, Alex Lehr O’Connell, Caroline Ridgway, and Brian Valdez
Big Picture Philadelphia and the Reform of America’s Educational System through Student-Centric Education
October 2009 David Bromley, Christine Bare, Edward Garcia, Anne Saporito
Ensuring America’s Competitiveness by Enrolling and Graduating the Nontraditional Student in Higher Education: I-LEAD
October 2009 Nicholas Torres, Rosemarie Cruz
CARIE: An Innovative Approach to Fighting Elder Abuse and Neglect
October 2009 Diane Menio and Amanda M. Satryan
Leadership

Relates the experiences of a provoking and credible leader in a nonprofit, a socially responsible business, or a government agency.

What Is a Social Entrepreneur, Really
August 2010 David Castro
In Their Own Words… Jeff Brown
May 2010 Anne Saporito
A Chat about Innovation and the Region with Rob Wonderling, President and CEO, Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce
May 2010 Tine Hansen-Turton and Nicholas Torres
In Their Own Words… Joe Pyle
February 2010 Anne Saporito
The Philadelphia Connector Project
October 2009 Liz Dow
In Their Own Words… Susan Sherman
October 2009 Anne Saporito
Exploring the Dimensions of the Nonprofit Leader
October 2009 Anne Saporito
Book Reviews
The Power of Social Innovation: How Civic Entrepreneurs Ignite Community Networks for Good
May 2010 Tine Hansen-Turton
Disruptive Innovations

Profiles an innovative, promising, yet still unproven solution to an important social, environmental or organizational problem.

Social Innovations Tidbits
August 2010 Caroline Ridgway
Food-and-Farm Philanthropy Locally and Nationally: Ready to Take Bold Steps to Effect Big Change
May 2010 Debra E. Blum
Social Innovations Tidbits
May 2010 Caroline Ridgway
Creating Enriched Service Environments in the Community: Philadelphia Housing Authority’s Adult Day Center
May 2010 Nora Dowd Eisenhower & Ashley Humienny
New Growers Alliance Is Another Link in the Local Food Chain
May 2010 Brian Baughan
Creating Diverse Networks to Foster Social Innovation in the New New Orleans
May 2010 Nathan Rothstein
The Community Design Collaborative: Connecting Dreamers and Designers
May 2010 Bernard Brown and Haley Loram
Medical-Legal Partnership|Philadelphia: Meeting Basic Needs and Reducing Health Disparities by Integrating Legal Services into the Healthcare Setting
May 2010 Ellen Lawton, Ben Beck-Coon, and Abby Fung
Using Income-Generating Activities to Educate Students for a Global Economy through 100% Market-Driven Education
February 2010 Mary Liz Kehler, Luis Fernando Sanabria, and Paul Teeple
Frontline Staff as Social Innovators
February 2010 Luz Santana and Dan Rothstein
Is 2010 the Year We Will See Ineffective Nonprofits Go Away?
February 2010 Jeff Mason
Cause Marketing: An Innovative Fundraising Model
February 2010 Meg Rayford
English-Language Access for Philadelphia’s Spanish Speakers: A Simple Innovation to Reduce Juvenile Justice Placements?
February 2010 Sam Rhoades
Introducing Lean for Nonprofits
February 2010 Kennard T. Wing
Achieving Better Results Through Shared Leadership
October 2009 Umi Howard
Applying New Disruptive Power to an Old Problem: How Innovative Entrepreneurialism Is Helping to Fix Health Care
October 2009 Caroline Ridgway
For-profit Businesses with Nonprofit Ideals: An Experiment that Works at RHD
October 2009 Bob Fishman
What Works & What Doesn't Work

Presents an in-depth analysis of a management challenge faced by a nonprofit, a socially responsible business or a government agency

Billy Beane and Outcomes: What Can Baseball Tell the Nonprofit World About Measures and Measurement?
August 2010 Ken Berger & Robert M. Penna
Talent and Networks Drive Economic Development
July 2010 Rich Bendis
The Department of Human Services’ Education Support Center: A Public/Private Partnership
May 2010 Cynthia Figueroa, Liza M. Rodriguez & Keri Salerno
Toward a 21st-Century Workforce: The Job Opportunity Investment Network
May 2010 Seth Green
Nonprofit Board Leadership: An Essential Ingredient for High-Impact Nonprofits
May 2010 Tom McKenna
Engaged Americans Want Philanthropic Foundations to Be Innovative and Speak Up About It
May 2010 Courtney Spalding-Mayer
Data as the Critical Driver of College Access and Success Partnerships
May 2010 Meg Long, Sarah Singer Quast, and Justin Piff
Options in Leadership Transition
May 2010 Laura Otten
A Means to Assess Social Investment Risk – and a Plea on Behalf of the People who Need Nonprofit Organizations to Deliver the Value they Promise
May 2010 David E. K. Hunter
The Battle for the Soul of the Nonprofit Sector
May 2010 Ken Berger, Robert M. Penna, and Steven H. Goldberg
The Death of Planning?
May 2010 Shelly Kessler
The Bridgespan Group 2010 Knowledge Letter
January 2010 The Bridgespan Group
Social Innovations Tidbits
January 2010 Caroline Ridgway
On the Money: How Traditional Grantmaking Practices Challenge the Innovative Impulses of Nonprofit Leaders
January 2010 Nancy Burd
Getting It Right in 2010: Ensuring a Proper Count in the U.S. Census
January 2010 Brian Baughan
Sourcing a Solution
January 2010 Lana Price
Why Magic Bullets May Miss the Mark
January 2010 Feather O'Connor Houstoun
Economy Not Key In Residents' Love For Philadelphia
October 2009 Trabian Shorters
Improving Client Service Quality: Supervisors Mastering the Art of Integrating Facts with Values
October 2009 Paul DiLorenzo
The End of Charity: How to Fix the Nonprofit Sector Through Effective Social Investing
October 2009 David E. K. Hunter
Louisiana is First State in the Nation to Launch an Institute to Incubate Innovative Social Programs
October 2009 Sara Brenner and Brooke Smith
Comparing Apples and Oranges: How to Identify High-Performing Organizations
October 2009 Jeff Mason
The Birth of a Fourth Sector
October 2009 Richard J. Cohen and Tine Hansen-Turton
Columns

Features future trends within the social sector by cutting edge thought provoking leaders.

Connector Judy Wicks: A Farm-Fresh Approach to Innovation
May 2010 Liz Dow
The Mural Arts Program’s Restored Spaces Initiative: Engaging Philadelphia Youth in Multi-Faceted Community Enrichment
May 2010 Jane Golden
The Next Gen: In Search of Sustainability
May 2010 Nancy Moses
Why Effective Nonprofit Board Governance Is a Necessity
May 2010 R. Andrew Swinney
Next Gen Nonprofits: Measuring the Mission
February 2010 Nancy Moses
Motivating Social Innovators
February 2010 Liz Dow
The Mural Arts: A Solution to Healing and Restoring People who go through the Criminal Justice System
February 2010 Jane Golden
The Next Gen: Holidays 2009
December 2009 Nancy Moses