Social Innovation in the US?
• 564 Tribes/Tribal Nations
• 50 states + Puerto Rico and US territories + the District of Columbia (DC)
• 30K towns and cities, 20K municipalities
• 3.7M Sq Mi (9.8M Sq Km)
• 310M people
• 1 in 8 foreign born (thank you world)
• 3.8M people (Oregon)
• 1.8M people (Portland MSA)
• 2,809 miles from DC (4521 km)
What?
Where?
Thank you Downtown DC BID(Richard Rheinhard)!
Scale of Problems
• Neighborhood
• (Bio)Region
• World
Levels of Jurisdiction
• Federal
• State
• City/County/Township
1. Resilience, Sustainability
2. Work, Learning
3. Economy
Who? Key Players Players Trying hard to be
players
Social Networks CBOs/NGOs/Non-profits Universities
Incubators/accelerators Foundations Governments
Community organizers TBL or similar businesses Schools
Niche businesses Faith-based orgs
Federal Conversation<insert sigh here>
National Conversation
Conversations everywhere else
<insert applause here>
OpenSourceCulture
1. Developing sound business/financing models
4. Complexity
3. Measuring Impact
2. Achieving Scale
Thanks to Flickrfriends:
• Guindo
• Moosharella
• David Berlowitz
• btaroli
• Kludgebox
• The-o
• Polandeze
• Wildcat_Dunny