Springboard Social Innovation Forum

March 2010 Forum: Introducing HATCH: An Innovation Incubation Lab

Join us as we share the idea of Hatch, explore the elements that make it unique, and make your voice heard about what you and your city need in an innovation incubation space.

From products to programs, communities everywhere need the capacity to envision, design, and launch innovations.

Why incubate social innovation? We need to open new avenues for innovation that combine cultural knowledge and local experience with new tools and data, creating a model and a network of open source innovation. We know community members can become extraordinary changemakers when provided the right environment, inspiration, tools, collaborators, and information. Hatch will help generate solutions of all kinds, from the technical to the service-oriented, incubate them to their most fruitful, and help launch them into the market.

By creating specifically designed educational programs, an active idea laboratory, shared workspace, appropriate tools, and needed expertise, we can cultivate innovative technology- and service-based solutions to shared problems using newly collaborative, enriched strategies that can be replicated in diverse settings globally.

After two years of envisioning a center for social innovation, conducting research, and seeking like-minded partners, Springboard Innovation met motiveSpace, a unique coalition that facilitates community ownership of physical spaces through innovative funding, membership models, and community partnerships. In August 2009, a diverse team made up of members from both organizations and other interested parties dedicated three days at a retreat to put to paper a shared vision-and HATCH was born.

PLEASE RSVP by calling 503.452.6898
~ Refreshments and light dinner served ~

SPACE LIMITED TO 40 PARTICIPANTS

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