http://innovation-exchange.org/blog Innovation Exchange Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:27:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Earlier this week, the report from the Joint Ministerial and Third Sector Task Force on Climate Change, the Environment and Sustainable Development was formally launched. The event gave recognition and support to the third sector declaration on climate change - a statement of intent from third sector organisations to tackle ... http://innovation-exchange.org/blog/2010/03/green-next-practice-programme-mentioned-at-the-launch-of-climate-change-the-environment-and-sustainable-development-report/ We're excited about our next Festival of Ideas in Derby on 17th March looking at innovations on personalising social care in the East Midlands. We surveyed commissioners of public services and social investors on what they think are the immediate and long term issues in personalising social care within the ... http://innovation-exchange.org/blog/2010/03/festival-of-ideas-in-derby/ Today Innovation Exchange is launching its Green Next Practice programme.  This will extend the work of the Exchange from independent living and excluded young people into the environment and take on the challenge of greening public services.  We are delighted to be working in this area and believe that there are ... http://innovation-exchange.org/blog/2010/03/green-public-services/ Innovation Exchange wants to know who are our green heroes in Britain today? Any names spring to mind? We've been racking our brains but could do with some help form you. Your hero might be someone leading on the green agenda in the public eye, someone who has done amazing ... http://innovation-exchange.org/blog/2010/03/green-heroes/ Innovation Exchange’s recent Festival of Ideas with the North East Joint Improvement Partnership  sought out some of the very best innovations currently taking place to personalise adult social care in the Northeast. The event also launched the North East JIP’s  Provider Development Innovation Fund which offered £600,000 to innovative projects ... http://innovation-exchange.org/blog/2010/03/personalisation-and-providers-a-festival-of-ideas-stories-of-success/ On Tuesday, Innovation Exchange was delighted to co-host an event with the Association of Charitable Funders at King's Place. Conversation focused on how charitable foundations support innovation and the role of innovation brokers like Innovation Exchange. The event was expertly chaired by Julia Unwin, who quite literally wrote the book ... http://innovation-exchange.org/blog/2010/02/exchange-builds-links-with-social-investors/ Last night I attended the launch of Freshwell at the House of Commons. Freshwell is the name that East London Food Access, one of our Next Practice Projects, is using to take its knowledge of food co-operatives across the UK, helping communities to build them for themselves. We ... http://innovation-exchange.org/blog/2010/02/freshwell-launch/ New Philanthropy Capital's new report, Trial and Error, looks at the most innovative work that is currently taking place on the issue of youth offending. It has named the charity Dance United as one of the most the innovative schemes dealing with youth offending in the country. Dance United are ... http://innovation-exchange.org/blog/2010/02/youth-offending-whos-doing-the-most-innovative-work-on-this/ FutureGov is working with Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government to research the “now wave” and the “next wave” of public service delivery around the world. They need your help. They are are keen to crowdsource ideas of best practice from around the world for a session in mid-March ... http://innovation-exchange.org/blog/2010/02/whats-the-now-wave-and-the-next-wave-for-public-service-delivery-in-the-uk/ My colleagues at Innovation Exchange were understanding of my desire to be out of the office last Wednesday due to baking.  It's an excuse I'd enjoy using more often (I do love wearing my apron) but on this occasion ideas were in the oven. I was with the folks who run the Urban Ideas ... http://innovation-exchange.org/blog/2010/02/baking-urban-ideas-across-europe/