In my last post, I argued that, on its own, social innovation would never deliver systems change. For years, we’ve bet on projects, pilots, and clever innovations, hoping they’d somehow add up to transformed systems. Spoiler: they didn’t.

It’s taken years (okay, a lot of years) for the lessons to become clear: if we want different outcomes, we have at least two missing pieces to put in place:

Redesigning communities as integrated ecosystems rather than isolated sectors or silos – and backing communities as the stewards of those systems.
Acknowledging that intermediaries are… More Posted on 02-25-26