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