Social Innovation Forum In-Kind Donors
This year the Ariel Group, an international training and consulting firm that uses techniques developed and honed in the performing arts to help business leaders develop leadership presence, has entered into a partnership with the Social Innovation Forum. They are working on providing a range of presentation coaching to our Social Innovators that will equip them to better address the challenge of both presenting to groups and building sustainable relationships that help grow an organization.
Common Impact (formerly Harbinger Partners) partners with major corporations to provide nonprofits with professional capacity building in technology, marketing, and human resources. The Social Innovation Forum has formed a partnership with Common Impact to offer these services to our Social Innovators. We anticipate that all four 2007 Social Innovators will be eligible to undertake a capacity building project with Common Impact.
Last year, the Social Innovation Forum partnered with the Executive Coaching Graduate Certificate Program at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology (MSPP) to provide past and present Social Innovators with four months of free executive coaching. MSPP offers a two-year Executive Coaching program. Coaches from the program, often mid-career professionals, work with the Social Innovation Forum in the final phase of their graduate training and as a part of their practicum. The Social Innovation Forum currently offers this opportunity to past Social Innovators and their senior staff.
Solomon McCown is a Boston-based firm that provides strategic communications and crisis management services to mission-focused organizations and businesses. The company leverages all of its assets — strategic thinking, considerable experience, successful alliance building, and commitment to results — to help clients achieve the recognition, definition, and protection they need to meet their goals.
Solomon McCown has built a reputation helping national, regional, and local organizations reach and influence key constituencies, and capture critical funds and support through strategic and creative communications and thought leadership programs. SM& is pleased to bring this experience and skill set to the 2008 Social Innovation Forum by providing two teams of communications experts along with a senior member of the SM& Non-Profit practice to work with the Innovators in their identified tracks.
Pro-Bono Support
Goodwin Procter has generously offered their legal advice and support to Root Cause on trademark and intellectual property, 501(c)3 status, and the development of an employee handbook. Goodwin Procter has offered our nonprofits access to pro-bono services as well.
The Social Innovation Forum has become a partner of World Community Grid, joining the IBM Corporation and a group of more than 220 companies, associations, foundations, nonprofits and academic institutions that are contributing their idle PC time to assist humanitarian research. IBM has provided the Social Innovation Forum with equipment to help us in our work. In addition, IBM has provided equipment to one of our Social Innovators.
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