How can we make social innovation flourish in our city? What do communities need to recognize and support social innovators through all stages of their development? How can we best assess how our city enables or discourages social innovators to thrive?

Join us for a “working Forum,” where Portlanders will put our heads together to discuss the best ways to create and support social innovation in Portland and in other communities nationwide. We will be exploring Springboard’s latest initiative, Innovative Cities.

Innovative Cities provides a framework of the necessary conditions for nurturing and sustaining social innovation within a city. The Innovative Cities Model is a guide for cities to adopt which provides a place for existing social innovation resources to be listed, and then publishes them in a searchable database for other cities to replicate. http://www.springboardinnovation.org/programs/innovative_cities.html