Social Innovation Forum

Social Innovation Forum Staff

Susan Musinsky
Co-Director
Mary Rivet
Co-Director
Emily Silberstein
Program Coordinator
Christina Donivan
Operations Coordinator

Root Cause Advisors

Andrew Wolk
Founder and CEO of Root Cause
Julie Zack
Associate Director of Root Cause

The Social Innovation Forum is a Root Cause social enterprise

The Social Innovation Forum accelerates the development of enduring solutions to social problems by directing an alternative flow of local resources to innovative, results-oriented organizations striving for efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability. Through an annual rigorous selection process, we choose Social Innovators demonstrating promising approaches to addressing specific social problems. We provide our Social Innovators with strategy consulting, executive coaching, and introductions to a Social Impact Investment Community made up of government leaders, foundations, and individual donors who are willing to offer time, talent, relationships, and money. Our aspiration is to build a Social Impact Investment Community that will invest and re-invest resources based on performance, in order to increase progress in solving pressing social problems.

In 2008, the Social Innovation Forum is working with six dynamic Social Innovators. Learn more about our 2008 Social Innovators 

Social Innovation Forum Spring Updates:

Social Innovation Forum's feature story in The Boston Globe: "Bottom-line philanthropy: Nonprofits find help developing pitches aimed at donors used to seeing results"

The Social Innovation Forum’s 2007 Report Card highlights the growth of our Social Innovators, reflecting the positive impact our process has had on them.

Boston Business Journal Op-ed “Shifting Philanthropic Focus” by Andrew Wolk, Root Cause, and Andrea Silbert, Eos Foundation 

Listen to the Social Innovation Forum's Panel "High-Engagement Philanthropy: Making an Impact Using a Venture Approach"