San Francisco, USA

A non-speedgeek highlight from the Innovation Funders event: listening to Howard Rheingold wax prophetic on exactly the kind of questions I’ve been ruminating on for our business plan. What is network-centric social investment? How do you blend networks, emergence and cooperative strategies into the practice of philanthropy and social investment?

Giving a glimpse of a paper he’s writing for the Council on Foundations, he said: “We need to be thinking about something beyond programs and projects. We need to be thinking about something with permeable boundaries and smarts at the edges.” We do, and we are.