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The Office of Social Innovation prioritized PFS in 2011 by introduce PFS in the FY12 Budget and initiating a series of events designed to educate local, county and state lawmakers about the opportunity presented by PFS. Since that time, the White House has hosted numerous workshops, panel discussions, and other events focused on PFS.
Jolin was at the White House as a senior advisor for social innovation, in the newly created Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation. In that role, she designed the Social Innovation Fund and other policy tools to drive investment toward more innovative and effective solutions to our nation's most critical social problems.
The core White House staff positions and most Executive Office positions are generally not required to be confirmed by the Senate. The positions that require Senate confirmation include: the director of the Office of Management and Budget , the chair and members of the Council of Economic Advisers , and the United States trade representative .
Social innovation includes the social processes of innovation, such as open source methods and techniques and also the innovations which have a social purpose—like activism, crowdfunding, time-based currency, telehealth, cohousing, coworking, universal basic income, collaborative consumption, social enterprise, participatory budgeting, repair ...
The Office focused on issues such as national service, civic engagement, impact investing, and social enterprise. [ 21 ] In his role as Director of SICP, Greenblatt took an active role in supporting AmeriCorps , [ 22 ] supporting social entrepreneurs, [ 23 ] and working with the G8 taskforce to support social impact investment . [ 24 ]
On February 25, 2011, the White House appointed Jeremy Bernard, the first male, and first openly gay, social secretary in that position's history."I have long admired the arts and education programs that have become hallmarks of the Obama White House and I am eager to continue these efforts in the years ahead," Bernard said during the announcing press conference.
Renamed as the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation [28] 1 January 2013 Transfer of Equality Tribunal from the Department of Justice and Equality [29] 1 September 2017 Transfer of Employment Affairs and Employment Law to the Department of Social Protection [30] 2 September 2017 Renamed as the Department of Business, Enterprise and ...
The White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (WHIAANHPI) was a United States governmental office first created on June 7, 1999, under the Clinton Administration that coordinated an ambitious whole-of-government approach to advance equity, justice, and opportunity for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (AA and NHPIs).