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Social Innovation Fund: News, Press Releases, and Official Statements
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View press releases, media advisories and official statements related to the Social Innovation Fund from the Corporation for National and Community Service.
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2/10/2012 |
National Service Agency Requests Applications for Social Innovation Fund Competition |
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The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) released a Notice of Federal Funding Availability (NOFA) today for the 2012 grant competition of the Social Innovation Fund. The deadline for applications will be 5:00 p.m. EST on Tuesday, March 27, 2012. Successful applicants will receive grants of between $1 and $5 million per year for up to 5 years. |
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8/4/2011 |
National Service Agency Announces Results of 2011 Social Innovation Fund Grant Competition |
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The Corporation for National and Community Service today announced that five new intermediaries will be receiving grants from the Social Innovation Fund. Like the eleven organizations selected last year, these five outstanding organizations represent experienced grantmakers with strong track records of success who have proposed compelling, innovative programs to tackle some of our country's biggest challenges in our most needy areas. |
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2/28/2011 |
National Service Agency Requests Applications for Social Innovation Fund Competition |
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The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) today released a Notice of Federal Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for the 2011 grant competition of the Social Innovation Fund. Applications are due by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday, April 12, 2011. |
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12/22/2010 |
Social Innovation Fund Subgrants to Help Put Thousands of Low-Income Families on Path to Economic Stability |
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Washington, DC – The Social Innovation Fund is moving more than $12 million in federal and private investments into some of the cities hardest hit by the economic downturn. Three grantees of the Fund recently awarded the first round of subgrants to support 61 community-based nonprofit organizations working to provide workforce training, job placement, financial literacy services, and other resources to help individuals achieve long-term financial security. |
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12/22/2010 |
National Service Agency Solicits Public Feedback on 2011 Social Innovation Fund |
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The Corporation for National and Community Service released a draft Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for its 2011 Social Innovation Fund grant competition today. The Corporation is soliciting public feedback on the funding notification through January 21, 2011.
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11/3/2011 |
The Obama Administration's Social Innovation Fund: An In-depth Interview with Director Paul Carttar
Huffington Post
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Recently, I interviewed Paul Carttar, Director of theSocial Innovation Fund--an initiative of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) intended to improve the lives of people in low-income communities. It does so by mobilizing public and private resources to grow promising, innovative community-based solutions that have evidence of compelling impact in three areas of priority need: economic opportunity, healthy futures, and youth development.
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8/15/2010 |
Weekend Entrepreneur Links: Openness, Incubators, and Ideas
Change.org
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Lets Hear Those Ideas: A mega-piece by Philanthrocapitalism author and Economist Bureau Chief Matthew Bishop that compares the Obama Administrations courting of social entrepreneurs with programs like the Social Innovation Fund to the British Government's new "Big Society" programs. Important to understand how a new class of "civic entrepreneurs" might reshape the relationship between people, business, and government.
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8/15/2010 |
Supporting Socially Innovative Tech Startups
Read Write Start
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Okay, so it may not be a venture-fundable idea. And nor, as it's a for-profit company, is it eligible for much of the funding aimed at non-profit organizations working on these sorts of community-oriented projects, including the new $50 million Social Innovation Fund. But as Funny Monkey and many other companies demonstrate, making money and having a social mission, creating profits and social innovation, aren't mutually exclusive.
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8/14/2010 |
Centers for Working Families expanding in Indianapolis
Indianapolis Business Journal
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The local grant is part of $4.2 million that Washington, D.C.-based LISC will receive from the Obama administration’s Social Innovation Fund.
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8/12/2010 |
Will Social Entrepreneurship Finally Scale? What do you think?
Renaissance 2
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Although the SIF accounts for a tiny fraction of the federal budget, the fund embodies an approach that the administration plans to spread throughout government. The fund is one of several efforts to promote new partnerships of government, private capital, social entrepreneurs and the public, pushed by the White House’s Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation (OSICP), which Mr Obama created soon after taking office. These initiatives include another fund, i3 (for “investing in innovation”), in the Department of Education and cash prizes for novel answers to social problems.
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