citizen centered solutions

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by Allie Burns
Yesterday, the Case Foundation had the pleasure of co-hosting the Civic Innovators Forum, a day-long event with the National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC), the Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement (PACE) and Splashlife, exploring the role of...
by Jean Case
Today, we are pleased to share with you a new report, Citizen-Centered Solutions: Lessons in Leveraging Public Participation from the Make it Your Own Awards. The report takes a look at our experiments to inspire passionate people and teams to...
by Josh Tabb
Back in April, the Case Foundation and the White House teamed up for day long strategy session aimed at promoting innovation in the public sector through the use of prizes, challenges and open grant making. The idea was that leveraging the use of...
by Nathan Waterhouse
OpenIDEO is a community that brings together human-centered design methods with a web-based platform to tackle social issues. It’s a platform that deliberately addresses the question: Is a crowd better at solving problems than just a small team or...
by Josh Tabb
Nonprofit video contests are great. I think they are the most interesting type of online contests, and not just because I like watching YouTube videos. Aside from giving thousands of nonprofits a platform to tell the stories of their hard work and...
by Jean Case
We're proud today to release a new report as part of our “Case Studies” from the spring gathering, Promoting Innovation: Prizes, Challenges and Open Grantmaking, a daylong strategy session we co-hosted along with the White House Office of Science...
by Allie Burns
The benefits of crowdsourcing for crisis information were brought into the limelight in the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake, when Ushahidi, a platform originally developed to map reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election fallout in...
by Josh Tabb
It’s the year 2010, aren’t we supposed to have flying cars by now? And teleports? If you were to ask me 20 years ago what the future would be like, I would have told you about moon colonies, not Twitter. To be sure, the techvolution in information...
by Sokunthea Sa Chhabra
Edward Norton says, “If you don’t give back, no one will like you.” He was the Incredible Hulk and leader of Fight Club, so I’d listen if I were you. I was surprised to see Ed Norton making appearances at various conferences during Internet Week...
by Josh Tabb
Last week, we were honored to have so many experts in our office to help us uncover the special recipe for winning online contests. Fresh off of their tour for their new book, The Networked Nonprofit, Beth Kanter and Allison Fine dropped in to...
by Sokunthea Sa Chhabra
My colleagues, Michael Smith and Kari Saratovsky, and I are presently at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service in New York City (along with over 5,000 other attendees!). There is so much great information coming from this conference...
by Nikolai Stieglitz
How old were you when you first changed the world? Most of us start volunteering in high school or college. We find meaningful jobs later in life and donate to our cherished causes. If that’s you, the Staples Youth Social Entrepreneurship...
by Michael Smith
We’ve spent a great deal of time here at the Case Foundation trying to convince institutions and individuals alike to embrace citizen-centered solutions. We’ve supported citizen-centered initiatives ranging from community building to nonprofit...
by Jean Case
After closing out the 2009 America's Giving Challenge late last year, which raised more than $2.1 million from 105,000 donations for nonprofits (in just 30 days) we made a commitment to conducting in-depth research to better understand the impact...
by Josh Tabb
In the past few months we have talked a lot about Citizen-Centered Solutions, and particularly the use of online challenges by organizations such as Pepsi, Chase, the Knight Foundation and others; organizations with larger budgets, staffs and...
by Eric Johnson
One of the challenges of competitions is what happens after the prize money is awarded. Winners get fame and recognition, and, if they are lucky, introductions to partners or benefactors that can fuel their growth. Net Squared has faced this, as...
by Allison Fine
For this third and final Conversational Case Study on America’s Giving Challenge from Beth Kanter and I, we wil pose a question rather than answer one: Is there a “special sauce” for successful participation in online fundraising contests? Any good...
by Michael Smith
In this blog series we have been exploring the various ways in which organizations are utilizing crowdsourcing and open competitions to encourage innovation and discover new solutions to the world's problems. I recently spoke to Gary Kebbel, the...
by Michael Smith
We have recently witnessed Minnesota become the state champion of Citizen Centered Solutions, with organizations and initiatives emerging all over the state, dedicated to using the online challenge to help Minnesotans determine solutions to their...
by Sokunthea Sa Chhabra
Next in our lineup of video interview recaps from the public-private strategy session with the White House on promoting innovation through prizes, challenges and open grantmaking, is with Sonal Shah, Director of the Office of Social Innovation...
by Sokunthea Sa Chhabra
Next in our lineup of video interview recaps from the public-private strategy session with the White House on promoting innovation through prizes, challenges and open grantmaking, is with Aneesh Chopra, the first Chief Technology Officer of the...
by Sokunthea Sa Chhabra
Next in our lineup of video interview recaps from the public-private strategy session with the White House on promoting innovation through prizes, challenges and open grantmaking, is with Rob McEwen, Chairman and CEO of US Gold and Lexam...
by Michael Smith
What do DARPA, American Express, NASA, the Knight Foundation, the State Department, and PepsiCo have in common? These were just some of the organizations that came together for a recent public-private strategy session hosted by the Case Foundation...
by Sokunthea Sa Chhabra
On April 30th, we co-hosted a public-private strategy session with the White House on driving innovation and civic dialogue through the use of prizes, challenges and open grantmaking. The conference was a great success with lively discussions and...
by Jean Case
This morning, I have the honor of kicking off the public-private strategy session we're hosting with the White House on driving innovation and civic dialogue through the use of prizes, challenges and open grantmaking. I feel a great sense of...
by Kristin Ivie
As Michael mentioned in his blog post earlier this week, we're excited to team up with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Domestic Policy Council for a day-long strategy session on promoting innovation through the use of...
by Michael Smith
On Friday, April 30 we’re teaming up with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Domestic Policy Council (where the Office of Social Innovation resides) to bring the private and public sectors together to discuss lessons and...
by Sokunthea Sa Chhabra
Did you miss Tuesday's live CaseSoup session with Donna Callejon of GlobalGiving? Don't worry, we have the recorded video below! It was a great discussions between Donna, Michael, and ... the public. Donna was here to speak with us about online...
by Kristin Ivie
Hundreds of individuals and organizations have been able to help their cause or community through challenges and open-grantmaking initiatives, but there are few who have been as consistently successful at these competitions as Atlas Service Corps...
by Kari Dunn Saratovsky
Minnesotans already rank off the charts when it comes to civic engagement like voting and volunteering - so, what might happen when you turn them loose to raise money for nonprofits across the state? GiveMN's Executive Director Dana Nelson sits...
by Kari Dunn Saratovsky
When CauseShift launched WeCanEndThis.com at SXSW, they set out on a year-long quest to spark innovation and broader engagement in the movement to end hunger in America. And they won’t be satisfied until they’ve helped shift the conversation and...
by Sokunthea Sa Chhabra
The Case Foundation has long been interested in experimenting with and championing strategies that put citizens at the center of decision-making, one of the forms of this being open online challenges. One of the partners that we have had the great...
by Eric Johnson
As part of our new Citizen-Centered Solutions blog series, where we are exploring programs that ignite and embrace public participation, I caught up with Marnie Webb, TechSoup Global’s co-CEO, to ask about how public participation works at...
by Michael Smith
Vote for me. Help me win. Click here to support. These types of phrases have become commonplace as corporations, grantmakers, nonprofits and even the government have become seemingly obsessed with prizes, challenges and public participation programs...