Allison Fine says Fed's Office of Social Innovation is Sooooo 1998
Alison fine added a very interesting, thoughtful post to her blog on Wednesday, titled “Fed’s Office of Social Innovation is Sooooo 1998.” It begins…
Yesterday, Michelle Obama announced the creation of a new White House Office of Social Innovation intended to invest $50 million in innovative nonprofit efforts.
This effort will be spearheaded by Sonal Shah, the former head of global development at Google, Inc. (FYI: I do LOVE the fact that this is being driven largely by these amazing women!)
The First Lady explained the effort this way: “By focusing on high-impact, results-oriented nonprofits, we will ensure that government dollars are spent in a way that is effective, accountable and worhty of the public trust.”
Ugh. It’s almost hard to know where to start in critiquing this, but here I go.
Read the rest of the article (and be sure to check out the comments).
