Word: social
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...People on the ground level need to not be OK with the status quo if we’re going to institutionalize innovation,” Lomax said. “What I worry about the social innovators is that they’re not deeply rooted in the communities in which they serve...
...Noonan-Pomada, who works at a Boston elementary school through the AmeriCorps program City Year, said that he was “reinvigorated” by the panelists’ commitment to social change...
Last night’s panel, co-sponsored by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, is the final product of two years of sustained discussion among social innovators organized by Goldsmith and the Kennedy School. These conversations have also contributed to Goldsmith’s book “The Power of Social Innovation,” released this week...
...What's less clear than the group's makeup is the role it will play in November's midterm elections and beyond. "The real test is whether it's an electoral phenomenon or a social-protest phenomenon," says Isaac Wood, an analyst at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "They've been very successful at garnering headlines. What they need to do is prove they can garner votes." Yet to do so entails diving into a political process whose perversion has been an organizing principle for the Tea Party. "They are kind of anti-politics, not just anti...
...going to see a lot of these Tea Partyers mobilizing in the fall," predicts Ned Ryun, president of American Majority, a group that trains Tea Party organizations in tactics ranging from fundraising and campaign planning to social networking and voter registration. "They're fired up. They're going to do the grunt work and be the get-out-the-vote people...