We Bet On the Wrong Horse

For years, we told ourselves a comforting story: if we focused and funded enough social innovations, eventually the big systems would shift to a more equitable balance between money and quality of life.

It hasn’t.

For me, and many others working at the community level, social innovation has only ever been part of the solution because we have learned firsthand that systems are the real barriers to change and innovation.

Focusing on systems innovation at the community level has been a tough slog and, honestly, an often lonely… More Posted on 02-21-26