June 25, 2009
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The X Prize Foundation Inc. created two incentive competitions with $20 million grand prizes that were designed to encourage entrepreneurs to develop breakthroughs and innovations in health care.
September 29, 2008
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Changemakers, an online community for social entrepreneurs, held three online competitions in 2006-2007 to generate innovative projects in three categories.
April 1, 2006
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The Echoing Green Foundation convened a focus group and reception during its annual Current Fellows Conference to provide RWJF staff with the opportunity to meet and learn from Fellows and alumni, who are social entrepreneurs and/or health care innovators.
February 1, 2003
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In 2001, the Twenty-First Century Initiative, Washington, did post-film production and market outreach for a one-hour documentary titled, John Gardner: An Uncommon American.
December 1, 2003
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In 2001 and 2002, the Northland Institute in Minneapolis organized start-up activities of the National Gathering for Social Entrepreneurs, as well as the organization's 2001 and 2002 national conferences.
April 1, 2008
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The Communications Leadership Institute worked to identify ways nonprofit organizations can design campaigns to persuade individuals to take action on issues they care about.
March 1, 2005
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Diffusion of Innovations theory is the study of the social process of how new ideas, practices and objects become known and are spread through a social system.