2009 NCVS - Social Innovation to Address Critical National Challenges

This forum presented innovative strategies that solved public problems and considered how citizens can be engaged as partners with government. Building on this presentation, government officials and social innovators explored models of social innovation that have changed lives and the conditions that support social innovations. Speakers included: Michele Jolin, Senior Advisor for Social Innovation, Domestic Policy Council, The White House; Steve Goldsmith, Vice Chair, Corporation for National and Community Service; Shannon Schuyler, US Managing Director of Corporate Responsibility, Price Waterhouse Coopers; Cheryl Dorsey, President, Echoing Green; Sarah Di Troia, Partner, New Profit Inc.; Ian Hardman, President, Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT).