Last Friday, Scott Warren and I were in Atlanta, where we were one of twenty startup “civic ventures” competing to join a new “Civic Accelerator” started by Points of Light and Village Capital. The twenty finalists spanned a wide range of missions and forms, from helping people take action based on news articles to crowdsourcing… Continue reading What’s Our “Market Failure?”
Month: October 2012
Generation Perspectives
Nadia’s Law Part 3: It Launched!
Skepticism “There’s nothing we can do to change these problems. They are never gonna change.” “Man, if Martin Luther King had thought that, where do you think we would be?” – An interchange between two GC students at the start of the GC program, Fall 2012 As Generation Citizen launches our fall and yearlong programs… Continue reading Nadia’s Law Part 3: It Launched!
GC Joins Draper Richards Kaplan
Very exciting news today – Generation Citizen has been selected to join the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation‘s portfolio. DRKF is a (highly selective) “venture philanthropy” fund that helps social entrepreneurs grow and scale their organizations. In addition to intensive advising and a DRKF board appointee, GC will also receive $300,000 over the next three years.… Continue reading GC Joins Draper Richards Kaplan
Does Civics Ed = Ideology?
In a recent blog post, education expert Diane Ravitch quotes a reader who avers that the purpose of public education is that “the job requirements of a citizen in a democratic society are far and away more demanding than the job qualifications of a serf in a feudal society… It [educating for democracy] is one… Continue reading Does Civics Ed = Ideology?