Letters

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It's great to see an article ("Collective Impact," SSIR , vol. 9, no. 1, p. 36) advocating for whole-system social innovation in today's uncertain and chaotic world. This is what is needed in order to have signifi cant impact on intractable social issues. Your advocacy of comprehensive initiatives with long-term commitments from funders and key players is laudable. In my experience restructuring community planning for the California Ofi ce of AIDS, we found a simpler and less expensive way to achieve this. Budget cuts forced us to unwittingly use a rapid prototype approach, in which new structures were developed and tested quickly and …

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Publication information: Article title: Letters. Contributors: Not available. Magazine title: Stanford Social Innovation Review. Volume: 9. Issue: 2 Publication date: Spring 2011. Page number: 5+. © Stanford University, Center for Social Innovation Winter 2009. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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