News Round-Up: Coverage of the White House Press Conference on the Innovation Fund

Check out the links below for coverage of the White House press conference on the Innovation Fund:

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President Announces Community Solutions Agenda: Calls on Citizens and Philanthropists to Partner with Government and Invest in What Works

Today, President Obama announced the launch of the Community Solutions Agenda and issued a challenge to government, the private sector, philanthropy, and citizens to come together to find and invest in promising solutions to our nation’s toughest social problems. This agenda, which includes the Innovation Fund and the White House Office of Social Innovation [...]

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy: White House Officials Discuss Plans for Social Innovation Office

In a recent interview with The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, Melody Barnes, and Sonal Shah, the newly appointed head of the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation, discuss the important role social innovation will play in addressing critical challenges in education, healthcare, workforce development, and [...]

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NPR Morning Edition: White House Creates Office of Social Innovation

NPR’s Morning Edition recently devoted a portion of its daily broadcast to a discussion of the newly created White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation. The piece includes interviews with Melody Barnes, Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, and Eric Schwartz, Co-Founder and President of Citizen Schools, an America Forward coalition [...]

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Details on the Social Innovation Fund from the Serve America Act

With the recent passage of the Serve America Act and, with it, an authorization for a Social Innovation Fund, there are a lot of questions about how this Fund is going to work. These details are actively being developed by the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), which is responsible for forming the Fund’s regulatory [...]

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