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Intentional Innovation - report prepared for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation August 2008

How getting more systemiatic about innovation could improve philanthropy and increase social impact.

In early 2007, the Kellogg Foundation formed the Innovation and Design (InD) team to explore what the foundation could do to promote greater innovation inside its walls and with its partners and grantees. The effort was rooted in a hunch about the potential value of understanding innovation processes and how they might increase the impact of the foundation.

While acknowledging that innovations can and do come from people everywhere, the Kellogg Foundation observed that systemic and intentional approaches to innovation (rather than sporadic and passive) were producing important results in the corporate sector, and Kellogg wanted to explore whether those successes might translate over into social sector work.