February 2010: Minnesota State Representative Paul Thissen introduced legislation in the first week of February calling for the creation of the Minnesota Coalition for Innovation and Collaboration (MCIC). Minnesota is the latest out of a number of state and city governments throughout the country that are seeking to partner with nonprofit and business sectors to meet social needs, says RC's own Colleen Ebinger.
January 20, 2010: Root Cause's Social Innovation Forum announced the 2010 Social Innovators and presented the 3rd Annual Social Innovation Forum Achievement Award to David Howse of the Boston Children's Chorus at an event at the Parkman House in Boston. See the press release here.
December 9-10, 2009:Andrew Wolk delivers keynote address at the OneStar Foundation's Governor's Nonprofit Leadership Conference in Dallas, Texas − watch video from the live-streamed social media conference on partnerships and social innovation in Texas here.
November 17, 2009: Root Cause's Public Innovators initiative hosted an event in DC called Advancing Social Innovation in Government: Investing in Community Solutions, which brought together government leaders and social innovators to talk about the ways they approach social innovation and how to further the field. To listen to the government leaders panel, click here. To listen to the social innovators, click here.
For more videos from the panel and interviews with attendees, please visit our YouTube channel.
November 13, 2009: Root Cause Consultant Abby Fung and Information Technology Manager Marc Baizman will speak about performance measurement and new trends in donor and contact management systems, respectively, at the Massachusetts Nonprofit Network/AGM Nonprofit Conference
September 23, 2009: Julie Zack, Associate Director of Root Cause, presents on business planning for social impact at the 2009 East Coast Conference on Aging held by the American Society on Aging
September 1-4, 2009: Andrew Wolk speaks on a panel with Sonal Shah (White House Office of Social Innovation), Vanessa Kirsch (New Profit, Inc.), and Carla Javits (REDF), moderated by Jeffrey Bradach (Bridgespan), at the Social Capital Markets 2009 Conference
August 30, 2009: Anand Dholakia presents at the "Designing/Scaling Social Innovation" forum presented by SVP (Social Venture Partners) Tokyo at Keio University
July 15-17, 2009: Andrew Wolk presents at the Social Innovation eXchange Summer School 2009 on Recovery Through Innovation
June 30, 2009: Andrew Wolk attends a special event at the White House at which President Obama lays out his "Community Solutions Agenda"
June 2009: Andrew Wolk speaks at the Future Trends Forum in Madrid, Spain (view his presentation here)
April 16, 2009: CEO Andrew Wolk appears in an "armchair keynote" discussion with Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu at the Social Enterprise Summit in New Orleans
April 15-17, 2009: Root Cause presents Policy Track at the Social Enterprise Summit in New Orleans
March 1, 2009: CEO Andrew Wolk participates as speaker on panel discussion on "Innovations in Philanthropy" at the Harvard Social Enterprise Conference
