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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 is the author of numerous policy proposals that provide ideas for policymakers to support social entrepreneurship, including a proposal to create a White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation. [8] In November 2014, she co-authored the national best-seller Moneyball for Government [9] book.
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 ...
Established religions offer a critical financial contribution to the overall effort and effect of social services (e.g., community services with health care financing) in the US. The office was briefly led by Don Willett, an aide from Bush's tenure as governor of Texas who was later appointed a justice of the Supreme Court of Texas.
From April 2009 to August 2011, she served as the Director of the Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation in the White House. [2] [3] Shah was the founding executive director of the Beeck Center for Social Impact & Innovation at Georgetown University. [4]
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.
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).