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May
14
2010

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 & Civic Participation, and Jonathan Bays,...
May
14
2010

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 United States.
We had a lively discussion with...
May
14
2010

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Aneesh Chopra, the first Chief Technology Officer of the United States, discusses his office and the government's interests in and obstacles to running prizes, competitions and open-grants to spur innovation.
May
14
2010

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 Explorations and Founder of Goldcorp and Jim Bennett, former...
May
14
2010

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Rob McEwen of Goldcorp and Jim Bennett, formerly of Netflix, discuss the attitude and skills necessary to run a prize and challenge approach to innovation and its payoff to each of their respective companies in the past.
May
14
2010
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Beth Noveck, director of President Obama's Open Government initiative, and James Shelton, Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and Improvement, discuss open government and transparency.
May
14
2010
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 and the White House to explore the promise and...
May
14
2010
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Sonal Shah, Director of the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation, and Jonathan Bays, consultant in McKinsey & Company’s Social Sector Office, discuss how prizes might work in government.
May
13
2010
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Bonin Bough, Global Director of Digital and Social Media at PepsiCo and Max Schorr, team member at GOOD, discuss the Pepsi Refresh project.
May
13
2010

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Peter Diamandis, Chairman and CEO of the X Prize Foundation, and Tom Kalil, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and National Economic Council, talk about the President’s aspirations for the prize and challenges model of innovation as well as highlighting some exciting products of...
May
13
2010

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 presentations on the topic. Since space was limited...
May
11
2010

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Darius of Darius Goes West adopts a somber tone to appeal for support in DGW's America's Giving Challenge bid.
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5 Fast Facts
- Volunteers gave more than 8.1 billion hours, worth an estimated $169 billion
- Women volunteered at higher rates than men and working mothers have the highest volunteer rates.
- In 2008 and 2009 nearly 60% of citizens reached out to help their neighbors at least once a month, and 1 in 6 do so almost every day.
- 89% of Americans site they sit down to dinner with members of their households several times each week. Nearly 3 in 4 discuss political affairs with their families and friends at least once a month
- 63.4 million Americans volunteered in 2009, a jump of 1.6 million over 2008 (and the biggest spike in volunteering since 2003).





