<![CDATA[The Tugboat and the Tanker: Ideas for the New Office of Social Innovation]]>

1.0 link 208722 <![CDATA[The Tugboat and the Tanker: Ideas for the New Office of Social Innovation]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cameron-sinclair/the-tugboat-and-the-tanke_b_208722.html If Hurricane Katrina taught us in the aid community anything, it was that when the perceived systems of support broke down, the local residents turned to organizations and community groups willing to step up -- whether they had the capacity of not. In many areas along the Gulf Coast it was not a disparate band of 'do-gooders' but a highly networked group of organizations that collaborated and tag-teamed on everything from housing reconstruction, volunteer coordination and social service support.

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