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The Power of Social Innovation Series conducts practitioner-led Webinars on timely topics from education reform to economic development.
Each Webinar features innovators sharing their experiences and insights with fellow practitioners, students and scholars from across the country. The Series is sponsored by the Government Innovators Network and the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy.
For each event, ample time will be allocated for audience Q&A.
Recent Webinars
View slides and recordings for the most recent Webinars in the Series.
Unlikeliest of Partnerships? LAPD and LA Urban League's Neighborhood-based Approach to Fighting Crime*
August 24, 2011 | 1 to 2 pm ET
The discussion was moderated by Christopher Stone, Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of the Practice of Criminal Justice, Harvard Kennedy School.
The panel featured:
Recording - View the multimedia recording of the event.
Presentation - View the slide presentation of the Los Angeles Urban League.
Resources - Links to resources related to this event (this list may be updated periodically as the event nears).
Biographies - View the biographies of the moderator and panelists.
This Webinar examined the Urban League's Neighborhoods@Work program, a three-year-old collaboration with the LAPD that has contributed to a significant drop in homicides in the Park Mesa Heights neighborhood in central Los Angeles. The audience should leave with an understanding of how these two partners, along with dozens of others, originally came together; what are the key elements that have contributed to their success; and tangible policy implications and lessons that they could apply to their own work.
*This discussion is sponsored by the Government Innovators Network and the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management.
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Building a Culture of Innovation in Government: An Example from New York City Public Schools
August 15, 2011, 1 to 2 pm ET
This Webinar explored iZone, an initiative of New York City’s Department of Education. iZone consists of a unique community of innovative schools committed to personalizing learning. Through the use of real-time information, community and corporate partnerships, digital media, and clustering of innovative schools, iZone is creating and growing pockets of progress. What lessons are NYC schools learning about the process of education innovation? How are these lessons captured and shared with others?
The panel featured:
Also participating in the discussion will be Harvard faculty including Elizabeth City, Lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Education and Executive Director of its new three-year, practice-based doctoral program to prepare students to be leaders in education reform.
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The Power of Networks and Technology in Human Services Case Management
June 9, 2011, 2:00 - 3:30 pm (ET)
This free webinar will examine how technology innovation and the power of networks is transforming human services. Registration required. Ample time will be allocated for audience Q&A. The panel includes:
- Kathleen Feely - Vice President for Innovation, the Annie E. Casey Foundation; Chief Executive Officer, Case Commons, Inc.
- Bruce Kamradt - Director, Children's Mental Health Services, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin; Director, Wraparound Milwaukee
- Maurice Miller - Founder and Chief Executive Officer, the Family Independence Initiative
- Julie Boatright Wilson (moderator) - Harry Kahn Senior Lecturer in Social Policy; Director, Malcolm Weiner Center for Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
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Social Innovation as Economic Development:
Incubate and Grow Social Enterprises in Your Community
Hosted on April 19th, 2011
The panel explored the potential impact of, and laid out some key strategies for, supporting local social enterprises as a practical and effective means of encouraging business development, job growth and wealth creation.
- Anthony Williams (moderator) - William H. Bloomberg Lecturer in Public Management, Harvard Kennedy School; former two-term mayor of the District of Columbia
- Christopher Gergen - Co-founder and Executive Director, Bull City Forward
- Bo Menkiti - Founder and CEO, The Menkiti Group
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School Reform in Detroit:
Critical Lessons in Building Community Support
Hosted on April 13th, 2011
The panel explored the important role that civic leaders—both outside the public school system and within—can play in engaging and mobilizing the support of parents, neighbors and other residents in a city-wide effort to turnaround an education system that is failing so many of their young people.
- Archon Fung (moderator) - Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Citizenship, Harvard Kennedy School
- Michael Tenbusch - Vice President, United Way for Southeastern Michigan
- Johnathon Matthews - Principal, Cody Academy of Public Leadership
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New Pipelines for Social Innovation:
The Changing Face of Recruitment, Opportunities, and Impact
Hosted on March 10, 2011
This event explored efforts to inspire and support people from nontraditional backgrounds and experiences who are making an over-sized impact on our toughest community problems. View the recording.
- Stephen Goldsmith (moderator) - Deputy Mayor for Operations for New York City; former two-term Mayor of Indianapolis
- Jim Balfanz - President, City Year
- Jim Emerman - Executive Vice President, Civic Ventures
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Grow and Replicate!
Lessons from the Fresh Food Financing Initiative
Hosted on March 9, 2011
This event examined the Fresh Food Financing Initiative, a public-private partnership that creatively uses subsidies to incent the development of stores that carry fresh, healthy food in underserved neighborhoods.
- Julie Wilson (moderator) - Harry Kahn Senior Lecturer in Social Policy; Director, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy; Secretary for the Harvard Kennedy School
- Rep. Dwight Evans - Pennsylvania House of Representatives
- John Weidman - Deputy Executive Director, The Food Trust
Past Webinars
View slides and recordings for past Power of Social Innovation events.
Mobilization and Member-Based Organizations for Social Change
The Mandate and Caution of Engaging the Government
The Role of Procurement in Social Innovation Funding
Engaging the Citizen as Co-Producer of Social Good
Igniting Change in Juvenile Justice
Fresh Tools for Fighting Poverty: Empowering Low-Income Americans to Build Assets
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