Category Archives: Social Innovation

Tough Times in Regional Detroit

By Lisa Katz | Published: September 7, 2009
Unemployment in Macomb County I recently met with a Macomb county commissioner whose district is embedded in the metro Detroit region of roughly 5 million people. The commissioner was concerned because, despite state unemployment in excess of 15%, county unemployment exceeded 16%, and pockets in her district face rates as high as 25%. “We’re heading [...]
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New Working Paper: Social Change with a Network Mindset

By Kristin Wolff | Published: August 19, 2009
Monitor Institute Releases Working Wikily 2.0 Networks and Social Change We love and have been following the Working Wikily blog for some time now, but authors Diana Scearce, Gabriel Kasper, and Heather McLeod Grant have outdone themselves on this one. We agree that a networked mindset is evolving – and it changes assumptions about how [...]
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