Part 1: Funding Innovation in the Social Sector

​What if the social sector could embrace risk-taking and experimentation to unlock transformative outcomes? Join us for this insightful session where I’ll share key lessons from a year-long research project exploring how philanthropy can better support risk and learning.

What You’ll Learn:

✅ Why the social sector struggles to support risk-taking and experiential learning.
✅ Key insights from 30+ conversations with nonprofit leaders, funders, and innovators.
✅ Practical ideas for creating new funding models that prioritize learning outcomes.

Who Should Attend: This talk is for funders, nonprofit leaders, consultants, and anyone interested in exploring how we can reimagine philanthropy to address today’s most pressing challenges.

Key Topics:

- The broken feedback loops in the social sector.
- What the tech industry’s learning flywheel can teach us about innovation.
- Actionable scenarios for fostering risk-taking and exploration.

​For the process nerds, RSVP here for the Post-Grant Retrospective: https://lu.ma/5a4vkxeh

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For more background:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/opportunity-beyond-uncertainty-gary-chou-ualvc/

​This work was made possible by Nick Barr and our fiscal sponsor hackNY.