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1. The Creative Schools Initiative: Incentivizing the Arts in Chicago Public Schools through a Multi-Pronged Approach
2. BallotReady: It Should Be Easy to Vote, and Vote Informed
3. One Size Fits All Does Not Fit Medicaid's Most Vulnerable
4. Challenges of "Employment First"
5. Brief History and Future of Intellectual Disability Services in America
6. How Policy Efforts for the Intellectual and Developmental Disability Community Can Foster Innovation
7. Making the Blind Resources in India Work at Par with the Sighted Counterparts
8. How Using Data Makes the City of Boston Stronger
9. Place Matters: Perceived Neighborhood Safety and Social Support During Childhood and its Impact on Mental Health
10. Building a Culture of Strategic Data Use
11. BeHeardPhilly: Voices to Data to Change
12. Improving Child Health Outcomes: Addressing Policy Barriers to Caring for Parents in the Pediatric Setting
13. Developing an Opportunity Census: Toward a Data-Driven Theory of Equal Opportunity
14. Mayoral Candidates Discuss READ! by 4th Campaign
15. Unifying Divided Government: The Case of Pennsylvania’s Successful Housing Trust Fund Campaign
16. Co-Creation: A Key Lever to Build New Business Models that Support Sustainability and Society
17. Promise Zone Philadelphia: Philadelphian Synergy Breaking West Philly’s Poverty
18. Innovative Leadership Allows For Unique Service Model In City Government
19. Northampton Community College’s Benefits Access for College Completion
20. School District of Philadelphia Partnerships Data Project
21. AmeriCorps VISTA – 50 Years of National Service
22. Reading Development: Two Roads
23. In Teaching Literacy, Assessments Are In Real Time
24. Educating Philadelphia’s Job Seekers for 21st-Century Jobs
25. Shared Prosperity Philadelphia
26. Public Health Management Corporation’s Role as OST Administrative Entity
27. Out-of-School Time Participation and Student Outcomes: An Evaluation Brief
28. A Network-Wide approach to Professional development: Introduction
29. Promoting Innovation in a Scalable Out-of-School Time System
30. 21st Century Community Learning Center Evaluations: A Citywide Perspective
31. Program Identity: Promoting Entrepreneurship for Older Youth
32. Building Capacity to Integrate Science into Afterschool, Home, and Community
33. Using Design-Thinking to Support Content Delivery in Project-Based Learning
34. What’s The Future of Behavioral Health? The Four Megatrends That Are Driving Innovation
35. Bringing Evidence-Based Practice to Community Based Behavioral Health: The Beck Initiative
36. The Holistic Healthcare Safety Net System: Pennsylvania’s Next Frontier
37. Constructive Disruption for the Treatment of Substance Use Disorders: The Parity and the Affordable Care Acts
38. The Future of Behavioral Health: Embracing a Public Health Approach
39. Building the Missing Link between the Common Core and Improved Learning: How a state, a school district and a technical assistance provider are using their best resource—teachers—to implement the Common Core standards for improved teaching and learning
40. The End of Schools
41. Fostering Innovation: How the Education Sector Can Learn from Health Care
42. Transforming the Culture of Philadelphia’s Child Welfare System The Power of Community Collaboration to Improve Outcomes for Children
43. Coaching Philadelphia Students to Success
44. Innovation in Preparedness
45. Focused Deterrence in Philadelphia: Fighting Crime with Redemption and Hope
46. Driving Innovation and Civic Engagement with Open Data
47. Finding Peace with Parking: A Symbolic Change
48. The Building Blocks of Innovation: Establishing a Culture of Creativity in Philadelphia City Government
49. Sustaining Sustainability: Interview with Katherine Gajewski, Director of Sustainability, City of Philadelphia
50. Can Government Leaders Drive Innovation for your Social Enterprise?
51. The Philanthropy Column
52. Improving the Local Landscape for Innovation (Part 3): Assessment and Implementation: ASSESSMENT TOOL
53. Improving the Local Landscape for Innovation (Part 3): Assessment and Implementation
54. Improving the Local Landscape for Innovation (Part 2): Framework for an Innovative Jurisdiction
55. Improving the Local Landscape for Innovation (Part 1): Mechanics, Partners and Clusters
56. Improving the Local Landscape for Innovation - About the Series
57. Improving the Local Landscape for Innovation - Summary
58. Public Innovation: The Opportunity and the Challenge
59. Re-Innovating Government: Still the City of Firsts
60. Public Sector Customer Service: Philly 311 - Triumphing to Transform Local Government Service Delivery
61. Culture Blocks
62. Transforming the Philadelphia Government’s Conventional Budget Allocation Process to a Data- and Performance-Driven Budget Process
63. Philly Goes to College: Changing the College-Going Culture of Philadelphia
64. Current UK Initiatives to Put Young People to Work
65. A Way Out
66. The Latino Voter ID Workgroup: A Case Study of Collaborative Leadership in Philadelphia's Barrio
67. Policy Change To Aid Immigrant Youth Spurs Collaboration: The Formation of the Philadelphia Deferred Action Network (P-DAN)
68. The Freedom Rings Partnership: Community-Focused Collaboration
69. FreshRX: A Case Study in Disruptive Diligence
70. Background: Genesis and Replication of the Financial Empowerment Centers
71. Innovation at the Philadelphia Department of Human Services (DHS): Improving Outcomes for Children by Increasing Accountability and Strengthening Community Partnerships
72. Friends Life Care: Helping Make Sense of Long-Term Care Planning
73. Project Success: Connecting Young Adults with Aspergers with Meaningful Employment
74. Building a Coordinated System of Care: A Cross-Agency Response for Effective Services
75. Using Schools as Centers for Urban Revitalization
76. The Choice is Yours: An Innovative Alternative-to-Incarceration Program in Philadelphia
77. Washington, D.C.: A National Model for Lead Poisoning Prevention and Healthy Housing
78. Maximizing Participation Project (MPP): A Model for Engaging Medically Exempt TANF Recipients in Health and Employment
79. Integrated Health Services for Persons Living with Disabilities: “The Mayo Clinic for People with Disabilities”
80. Innovation in Public Health: Blending the Tried and True with New Directions
81. Alzheimer’s: A Disease We No Can Longer Afford to Sweep Under the Rug
82. Clearing the Path: Creating Innovation Space for Serving Over-Age, Under-Credited Students in Competency-Based Pathways
83. Innovations in Education: It Starts with a Conversation
84. Overview and Introduction to the Education Reform in the 21st Century
85. Bringing a Public Voice to the School Governance Debate: The Campaign for Better Schools and Mayoral Control in New York City
86. Widening the Circle of our Concern – Public Perceptions of the School District of Philadelphia’s Response to Intergroup Conflicts
87. Financing Public Education: Tax Increment Financing
88. What Kids Deserve
89. School-Based Health Care for Student Success
90. Learning to Share: Filling Empty School Seats by Coordinating Facilities Planning
91. Measuring Student Proficiency and Creating Capacity: The Move Toward End-of-Course Exams in Pennsylvania
92. Can The National Center on Time & Learning Bring Longer Schools Days to One Million Students?
93. Child Care, the Other Education System
94. A Lifeguard Downstream: The Need for Innovation in Educating Working Learners
95. Redefining the Role of Teachers and Their Unions in Reform Efforts
96. How Legislative Reforms Will Transform Schools in Pennsylvania
97. Innovation in Government: Mayor Nutter’s Homeless Initiative
98. Food-and-Farm Philanthropy Locally and Nationally: Ready to Take Bold Steps to Effect Big Change
99. The Department of Human Services’ Education Support Center: A Public/Private Partnership
100. Creating Enriched Service Environments in the Community: Philadelphia Housing Authority’s Adult Day Center
101. The Food Trust and the Fresh Food Financing Initiative: Eliminating “Food Deserts”
102. Creating Diverse Networks to Foster Social Innovation in the New New Orleans
103. Solutions for Progress and The Benefit Bank: A Community-Based Approach to Individual Self-Sufficiency
104. Medical-Legal Partnership|Philadelphia: Meeting Basic Needs and Reducing Health Disparities by Integrating Legal Services into the Healthcare Setting
105. English-Language Access for Philadelphia’s Spanish Speakers: A Simple Innovation to Reduce Juvenile Justice Placements?
106. Who Gave You Your First Break? WorkReady Philadelphia’s Innovative Approach to Stimulating Corporate Altruism on behalf of Inner-City Youth
107. Getting It Right in 2010: Ensuring a Proper Count in the U.S. Census
108. Why Magic Bullets May Miss the Mark
109. Paying Attention to Children’s Dental Care
110. The Pursuit of Progress
111. Thanks for the Republic - The Engine of Social Innovation
112. Rocket Science or Teaching: Which is More Difficult?
113. Louisiana is First State in the Nation to Launch an Institute to Incubate Innovative Social Programs