Springboard Innovation

The Springboard Social Innovation Forum offers a monthly event designed to support those interested in creating a better future. Our focus is to help practitioners or potential practitioners of social projects push beyond discussion and debate into action. Each Forum will inspire and teach with ideas, powerful role models, and stories. Speakers, content experts, panels, and workshops will help you improve your strategies for planning and launching effective social ventures. The Forum will create a context to connect, learn, and take action around ideas that lead to tangible change—all in a venue designed for building community.

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--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.

SPACE IS LIMITED, and RSVP is REQUIRED! Please contact Mary Grace at (503) 452-6898 or [email protected]

Cost is $10.00 at the door, which will offset costs and provide a light dinner.

Local Agenda is a program designed for people who are seriously interested launching a new career in improving the world, locally or globally, and are ready to take the needed time to develop a sustainable idea and plan ready for launch. Outcomes may take the form of a program, a project, an international initiative, a social business – or some combination of all of the above. Often called social entrepreneurship, it can be a career change, a life change, and even, a world change.

The program includes 12 weeks of workshops, three hours each, each Tuesday evening. It also includes extensive consulting on business development, strategy, budgeting, and launch.

SAVE A SEAT BY CALLING 503-452-6898 OR EMAIL US at [email protected] with your confirmation.

COST: $450 for the entire program, 16 weeks of workshops and consulting. We offer a sliding scale and scholarships for those who qualify. We will accept payment in installments. We want no barriers to leadership! Please call us for more information—soon!