Social Innovation in the US?

• 564 Tribes/Tribal Nations• 50 states + Puerto Rico and US

territories + the District of Columbia (DC)• 30K towns and cities, 20K

municipalities• 3.7M Sq Mi (9.8M Sq Km)

• 310M people• 1 in 8 foreign

born (thank you world)

• 3.8M people (Oregon)• 1.8M people (Portland MSA)• 2,809 miles from DC (4521 km)

What?

Where?

Thank you Downtown DC BID(Richard Rheinhard)!

Scale of Problems• Neighborhood• (Bio)Region• World

Levels of Jurisdiction• Federal• State• City/County/

Township

1. Resilience, Sustainability

2. Work, Learning

3. Economy

Who? Key Players Players Trying hard to be

players

Social Networks CBOs/NGOs/Non-profits Universities

Incubators/accelerators Foundations Governments

Community organizers TBL or similar businesses Schools

Niche businesses Faith-based orgs

Federal Conversation<insert sigh here>

National Conversation

Conversations everywhere else

<insert applause here>

OpenSourceCulture

1. Developing sound business/financing models

4. Complexity

3. Measuring Impact

2. Achieving Scale

Thanks to Flickr friends:

• Guindo• Moosharella• David Berlowitz• btaroli• Kludgebox• The-o• Polandeze• Wildcat_Dunny