The Earthsong Eco-Neighbourhood in Ranui, Auckland, was a finalist in the 2008 World Habitat Awards.
This is Robin Allison's submission to World Habitat Awards.
Earthsong Eco-Neighbourhood i...
Robin Allison
Sustainable Town Centres and Communities 2009
Research report written as part of her Fellowship with the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust.
Robin Allison is also a member of t...
A Dialogue Reader
- compiled by the Stewardship Learning Community 2009
Dialogue is a way of exploring the roots of the many crises that face humanity today.— David Bohm
Out beyond ideas o...
Social Innovation Dialogue is a way of talking with one another that addresses tough problems, reveals shared meaning and purpose, and invites new possibilities to emerge.
The dialogue process is ...
A Generous Difference
— some thoughts on philanthropy and social innovation
by vivian Hutchinson (2009)
The Great Depression of the 1930s was one of the most fertile periods in Western histo...
Into Troubled Waters (February 2009) a State of the Nation report produced by the New Zealand Salvation Army Social Policy and Parliamentary Unit.
“ Some communities in New Zealand were alread...
Competing for Change -- SSIR Winter 2008
How Changemakers "Collaborative Competitions" harness the wisdom of crowds, by Leslie Berger.
“Organizations I’d never heard of, doing projects I’d n...
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 e...
Measuring the Maybe — some thoughts on evaluation and social innovation
by vivian Hutchinson (2008)
How do you measure social innovation? How do you ascertain the value of what’s being done? Wh...
Social Entrepreneurship has brought a new vision to the field of philanthropy and, with it, a different perspective on evaluation. In fact, many familiar approaches to evaluation in philanthropy mis...
Every effort to promote social benefit today takes place in a new ecology — a context deeply different from that in which many of today’s institutions, assumptions, and habits were formed. The pres...
One of the key aims of a democratic government is to promote the good life: a flourishing society, where citizens are happy, healthy, capable and engaged – in other words with high levels of well-be...
Interview with author Paul Hawken at the Northern California Grantmakers annual meeting on the "Interdependence of Nature and People" held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts January 2003.
Paper given by Beth Cook, Chris Dodds and Bill Mitchell at the workshop "Social Entrepreneurship: whose responsibility is it anyway?" held 21 November 2001 by the Centre of Full Employment and Equi...
Creative and energetic leaders play an essential part in making societies work. When they are active in politics we call them national leaders; when they turn their attentions to commerce we call t...
As a society we are stuck in an impasse.We have a welfare state system that we know is ill-equipped to deal with many of the modern social problems it has to confront.Yet we are unable to sanction ...
vivian Hutchinson's report from attending the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship held at Oxford University March 2007. vivian Hutchinson is the Executive Officer of the Social Innovation ...