Peter Plastrik
Peter Plastrik focuses on accelerating the development and scaling up of social innovations that transform community or place-based systems, such as education, energy, transportation, and workforce development. With John Cleveland, Peter cofounded the Innovation Network for Communities (INC), a nonprofit national network. Since 2007, INC has worked on more than 50 specific innovations, developed 2 “innovation production” networks and raised $2.2 million to support projects. Details about this work are at www.in4c.net.
Peter’s specialties include social innovation design and implementation, strategic planning, program assessment, organizational development, urban education, urban sustainability, transnational immigration, networks and philanthropic foundations.
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Madeleine Taylor
Dr. Madeleine Taylor is a social anthropologist who has been advising public and nonprofit organizations and national foundations on strategy, research, program development, and evaluation for the last 15 years. Her recent focus has been providing social-change agents with tools, research, and consulting expertise to design, use and evaluate networks for increased impact. She is the author with Peter Plastrik of Net Gains: A Handbook for Network Builders Seeking Social Change (2006) and An Emerging Framework for Assessing Nonprofit Networks (Harvard Family Research Project 2007).
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John Cleveland
John Cleveland currently serves as President and is a founder of the Innovation Network for Communities, a national non-profit whose mission is to develop and spread scalable innovations that transform the performance of community systems. John has been working for over 30 years in human, social and natural capital formation strategies, sustainable development, green building design, organizational learning, socially responsible businesses, school reform, and economic development.
John also serves as the part time Executive Director for the Boston Green Ribbon Commission, a high level CEO group in Boston that supports the implementation of the Boston Climate Action Plan.
John has written extensively on a broad range of subjects, including systems theory; learning theory; organizational change; sustainable development; innovation; continuous improvement; and world class manufacturing strategy. Many of these documents can be accessed through the archives on the INC web site at www.in4c.net.
John’s specialties include:
- Strategy Development and Planning
- Urban Sustainability
- Innovation and Product Development
- Social Innovation
- Continuous improvement (TQM; Lean; Scoreboards; Visual Management)
- Community Development Philanthropy
- Learning Theory and Education Reform
- Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management
- Sustainable Development; Green Commerce; and Green Infrastructure
- Economic Development
- Network Design
- Smart Growth and Development Planning
- Complex Adaptive Systems Theory
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