Institutional innovation

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Paul S. Grogan, president of the Boston Foundation, visits with students in a school supported by the foundation, which works with community members, state and local governments, and other institutions to improve health and vitality of greater Boston.
Images courtesy of the Boston Foundation

Innovation, Institutional innovation

Paul S. Grogan: How a community foundation becomes a civic leader

The Boston Foundation envisions its role as more than just a philanthropy; it also serves as a civic leader, says the foundation president in this Q&A.

Innovation, Disruptive innovation, Institutional innovation

Disruptive innovation or just disruptive?

In a time when congregations and related institutions need to experiment to make the work more sustainable, we need to discern which innovations to nurture. The discernment process starts with a simple question: Why?

Christian Leadership, Innovation, Institutional innovation

Cultivating a denomi-network

A denomi-network has all of the benefits of a denomination, while also the innovation-sparking possibilities of a network.

Education, Higher education, Innovation, Institutional innovation

Mats A. Selen: The physics of change

Sometimes the most mundane changes can unleash innovation and creativity, says a University of Illinois physics professor. Here's what happened when his department changed how it teaches introductory courses.

Education, Higher education, Innovation, Institutional innovation

David Scobey: Let's do together what we can't do separately

Universities and religious institutions can work together to solve problems in their local communities, says a national leader on public engagement in higher education.

Education, Seminary, Innovation, Institutional innovation

Louis B. Weeks: How to start a new seminary campus

A Christian leader reflects on what it took to create a satellite seminary campus in Charlotte, N.C.: planning, strategy – and prayer.

Arts & Culture, Innovation, Institutional innovation

Institutional mapping and the pottery town

A map of Seagrove, N.C., shows that it is a thriving community whose potters are bound together by traditioned innovation, the desire to work together and a love of their craft. Do our institutions need maps that show the relationships, ideas and priorities that define us?

Innovation, Institutional innovation, Money, Budget & financial management

Innovation and the bottom line

Maintaining a creative institutional culture doesn’t mean abandoning the budget. A free resource explores how innovation and business thinking can -- and should -- exist together.

Money raised through the Rare Genomics Institute is funding Robert Stone's whole-genome sequencing. His family hopes this will help them understand the disease that began affecting him around 13 months. Photo courtesy of the Stone family

Health & Well-being, Innovation, Institutional innovation

Orphan diseases find a champion

Jimmy Lin -- a scientist and part-time seminarian -- founded the Rare Genomics Institute to blend science research with crowdfunding to help families of children with rare diseases.

Downtown farmer's market in Dubuque, Iowa. Photo courtesy of the city of Dubuque

Innovation, Institutional innovation, Money, Sustainability, New economic models

Smart, sustainable success

Dubuque, Iowa, is striving to become a model of sustainability as part of an IBM public-private partnership. To do that, citizens, businesses and other institutions have been changing their behavior on a grand scale.

A learning resource for Christian leaders and their institutions from Leadership Education at Duke Divinity