The Innovation Partners

07/22/2013

Innovation in a Chadian Refugee Camp | From toy trucks to functional mills, entrepreneurial Darfuri refugees find ways to eke out a living in a packed refugee camp.

Erin Luhmann, the 2013 win-a-trip winner, writes from Chad about how entrepreneurial Darfuri refugees find ways to eke out a living in a packed refugee camp.

07/16/2013

Check out founder Sandy Bates' article on SSIR about the importance of creating a common language for effective cross-sector collaboration!

A framework for visualizing problems and a common language for talking about them can make all the difference.

06/26/2012

How Social Innovation is Helping Strengthen Responses to Humanitarian Disasters Globally

HydroPack's turn any water source (mud puddle, rainwater, flood waters) into 12 ounces of clean, filtered water in about 10 hours.

06/12/2012

Time is getting closer for the Webinar with Sandy! Sign-up today!
http://wpcarey.asu.edu/csl/events-programs/upcoming-webinars.cfm

Webinars at the Center for Services Leadership.

05/07/2012

Social Business: Where It's Been & Where It's Going

"Chasing the past, I stumbled into the future". - T A Sachs I've always been a firm believer that in order to look to the future, we must look back to and fully grasp the past (and the present). Having...

04/29/2012

Here's to people with ideas. They don't have to be great ideas nor good ideas, just plain simple ideas!

04/15/2012

Start Following our Social Innovation Blog...
http://theinnovationpartners.blogspot.com/

The audience for this book is not at all limited to the non-profits, NGO’s, foundations and governmental agencies, although they were the immediate impetus for the book; however, corporations across the world are being pressed to become a contributor to society in more ways than providing jobs. A r...

04/11/2012

Sign up for the upcoming Webinar with Sandy on June 27, " Applying State of the Art Innovation Techniques to the World's Most Pressing Social Issues"

03/13/2012

Charities could better serve needy people if they approached their missions in the same way businesses develop products, writes business consultant Sandra M. Bates in her new book, The Social Innovation Imperative: Create Winning Products, Services, and Programs That Solve Society’s Most Pressing Ch...

03/09/2012

Our new website is up and running - check it out!

We are innovation consultants who assist NGOs, government agencies, nonprofits and medium enterprises to use our Framework for Social Impact to strategically create successful new services, software, programs, and business models. Our needs-first approach to innovation dictates that the needs of the...

02/25/2012

"The primary question should be,'What do citizens want?' If the needs of the citizen base are known, then politicians can develop valuable ideas to begin with, eliminating the trial and error that exists today." - Sandy Bates from her book in chapter 9, What Citizens Want

“This book is a must read for anyone who cares about the well-being of humanity in our modern world.” —Jake B. Schrum, President Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX “ The Social Innovation Imperative advances a best practice framework to solvi...