{"id":562,"date":"2010-03-01T16:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/six.stimulatingminds.co.uk\/?p=562"},"modified":"2022-07-07T12:16:17","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T12:16:17","slug":"the-open-book-of-social-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/socialinnovationexchange.org\/legacy\/the-open-book-of-social-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"The open book of social innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>This post was originally published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youngfoundation.org\/our-work\/publications\/the-open-book-of-social-innovation\/#:~:text=The%20Open%20Book%20of%20Social%20Innovation%20%E2%80%93%20part%20of%20a%20series,healthy%3B%20how%20to%20end%20poverty.\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Open Book of Social Innovation \u2013 part of a series on methods and issues in social innovation \u2013 is about the many ways in which people are creating new and more effective answers to the biggest challenges of our times: how to cut our carbon footprint; how to keep people healthy; how to end poverty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It describes the methods and tools for innovation being used across the world and across the different sectors \u2013 the public and private sectors, civil society and the household \u2013 and in the overlapping fields of the social economy, social entrepreneurship and social enterprise. It draws on inputs from hundreds of organisations around the world to document the many methods currently being used. This book provided a first mapping of these methods and of the conditions that will enable social innovation to flourish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The work is the result of a major collaboration between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nesta.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nesta<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youngfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Young Foundation<\/a>: two organisations that are committed to the role that social innovation can play in addressing the most pressing issues facing society today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Open Book of Social Innovation looks at ways to design, develop and grow social innovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[142,24],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publications","category-social-innovation-101","tag-social-innovation"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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