Social Innovation

"New Orleans as the Model City for the 21st Century: New Concepts on Urban Innovation"

This conference, hosted by Tulane University, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation will illuminate how New Orleans has emerged as a community where breakthrough innovations in sustainable design and community resiliency are reshaping how urban residents live and interact with one another for generations to come.

The event will feature five panel discussions on rebuilding efforts that have inspired forward-thinking innovations in sustainable urban development, public education, health care and job creation, and that have opened new opportunities for community engagement, social entrepreneurship and sustainable growth. As the conference will show, the higher education community in New Orleans along with foundations, grassroots organizations and philanthropic leaders from around the world together have forged long-term initiatives to invest in the future of New Orleans. 

To register, please go to http://tulane.edu/modelcity

Click HERE for the most up to date AGENDA

At the conference, you will also have the opportunity to learn about a new fellowship/funding opportunity: The Urban Innovation Challenge.

So, please check back HERE on October 1st for more information.

You can also learn more about some of the speakers at the conference by reading a special edition of  Innovations Journal. 

In partnership with the conference, Innovations Journal has  produced a special edition  "Urban Innovation: New Orleans FIve Years after Katrina". 

The printed journal will be available October 1, 2010.

Click here for PDF copy of Journal

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Lead Essays

Innovation Amidst Crisis:Tulane University's Strategic Transformation
Scott S. Cowen and Amanda P. Cowen

Social Innovation,Civic Infrastructure, and Rebuilding New Orleans from the Inside Out
Judith Rodin

A City's Renewal Animated by Entrepreneural Spirit
Walter Isaacson

Cases Authored by Innovators

The Idea Village
Toward a Tipping Point for Talent: How the Idea Villate is Creating an Entrepreneurial Movement in New Orleans
Tim Williamson
Commentary: Christopher Gergen and David Gergen, with Amanda Antico-Majkowski

The Birthing Project
An Underground Railroad to a New Life: Improving Outcomes for Mothers and Newborns of African Descent
Kathryn Hall-Trujillo
Commentary: Jeanette Magnus

The Receivables Exchange
Putting Capital Back to Work: The Receivables Exchange Creates a New Way for Small- and Medium-sized Businessto Manage Cash-Flow
Nicolas Perkin
Commentary: Tom Stein

Analysis

Engagement, Ecology, and Design Education: Outreach Work of the Tulane City Center
Scott Bernhard

Fellows and Scholars: Building Talent for theFuture of New Orleans
Valerie Piper

The Art of Sustaining Social Innovation:Markets, Imagination, and Rapid Prototyping
Sara Brenner with Andrea Bassett

Perspective on Policy

Government and Social Innovation: Current State and Local Models
Andrew Wolk and Colleen Gross Ebinger