We are excited to report that Susannah Washburn, Senior Advisor at the Corporation for National and Community Service, will be joining our discussion at next week's Accelerating Social Entrepreneurship conference in Washington, D.C.! This is sure to be an exciting opportunity to engage directly with the Corporation as they determine how exactly these funds will work. 

In our "Advancing Social Entrepreneurship" report with the Aspen Institute, we recommended a template for how a social innovation fund could work.  In this session, we will be exploring these same questions, but now with the knowledge that there is real potential in making this happen.  If you have any thoughts on how this might work, we hope you will attend the session and share them.  Or, if you can't make it in person, share your ideas here and we will represent them to the group.

Registration closes tonight for attending the conference in person, but you can still sign up through May 4th for the webcast AND archived video.  We hope to hear your voice represented!

About Breakout Session #5: Replicate 

Social innovation and social entrepreneurship are uniquely positioned to aid government in addressing social problems by leveraging public and private resources and by testing and developing solutions in order to invest in what works. The Obama Administration has recently launched a White House Office of Social Innovation (OSI) and the Congress passed the Serve America Act, which includes a social innovation fund to be managed by the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS). Join the leaders of Root Cause’s nonpartisan Public Innovators initiative and representatives from CNCS (confirmed) and the White House OSI (invited) for an engaging discussion about these new developments and to brainstorm ways to ensure their effectiveness.

Facilitators:

• Andrew Wolk, Founder and CEO, Root Cause
• Colleen Gross Ebinger, Director of Public Innovators, Root Cause