Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation

Latest Blog Posts

July 31, 2012 at 3:13 PM EDT

The Social Innovation Fund Adds Four New Intermediaries to its Portfolio

The SIF is elevating proven community solutions, helping build scale through philanthropic leverage and evaluation of results to fund programs that work.
July 25, 2012 at 3:02 PM EDT

Fighting HIV/AIDS in Washington, DC

Community Health Workers in the Washington AIDS Partnerships's innovative Positive Pathways Program are helping their neighbors overcome barries to treatment for HIV/AIDS.
July 11, 2012 at 10:46 AM EDT

Matching Jobseekers to Careers

WorkAdvance, the recipient of a Social Innocation Fund grant, helps people looking for work get the career counseling, interviewing skills, and referrals to full-time jobs with room for advancement.

The Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation is focused on doing business differently by:

promoting service as a solution and a way to develop community leadership;
increasing investment in innovative community solutions that demonstrate results; and
developing new models of partnership.

These three mission areas together comprise the community solutions agenda.

December 14, 2010
President Barack Obama signed an Executive Order establishing the White House Council for Community Solutions.

January 21, 2010
On Martin Luther King Day, the President and First Lady dedicated the morning to serving the community in DC.

October 16, 2009
President Obama delivered remarks commemorating the 20th anniversary of President George HW Bush’s Points of Light.

November 11, 2009
The First Lady launched an innovative veterans and military families service partnership on Veterans Day 2009.