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Social Innovation Forum

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.

2010 Social Innovation Forum's Request for Proposals

This year the Social Innovation Forum has partner with local funders to feature organizations in five social issue tracks. We are currently accepting nominations for each of the five tracks through our nomination form which can be found at: www.socialinnovationforum.org/nomination.shtml

Organizations can be nominated in one or more of the following tracks:

• Employment and Education: Creating Opportunity in Today’s Economy
• Fitness and Healthy Eating: Preventing Obesity from an Early Age
• Healthy Aging: Fostering Vibrant Lifestyles Among Older Adults 60+
• Housing and Homelessness: Finding Solutions to Greater Boston’s Housing Challenges
• Women and Girls: Meeting their Needs by Design

For more information about the Social Innovation Forum's Application Process please see our Applicant Guide.

Social Innovation Forum Partners, Sponsors, and Investors

Lead Funding Partner Margaret Stewart Lindsay Foundation Angel Investors ($5000+) Bilezikian Family Foundation Michael Cronin Frieze Family Foundation Jordan and Julie Hitch Weston and Susanah Howland Mike and Julie Kaneb Joanna Cook Kjellman George and Gillian Overholser John and Maureen Poole Mark and Marie Schwartz Stifler Family Foundation Howard Wolk

Social Issue Track Sponsors Anna B. Stearns Charitable Foundation Highland Street Foundation State Street Foundation The Stifler Family Foundation and Health Management Resources Foundation (HMR) Tufts Health Plan Foundation In-Kind Partners Ariel Group Cambridge Innovation Center Common Impact Design Studio at Monitor IBM Corporation Goodwin Procter Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group Solomon McCown & Company

Social Innovation Forum Updates:

The 2008 Key Measures Report features our 2008 Social Innovators.

The Social Impact Investment Prospectus features the 2009 Social Innovators.

The Social Innovation Forum’s Social Impact Report Card highlights the growth of our Social Innovators, reflecting the positive impact of our process.

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"

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" 

Social Innovation Forum Staff

Susan Musinsky
Director
Mary Rivet
Senior Advisor
Emily Silberstein
Program Coordinator
Peter Hill
Communications & Development Fellow
Amanda Paull
Events Assistant

The Social Innovation Forum is a Root Cause social enterprise