LifeShare Blood Centers was founded in 1942 when the concept of blood banking was just a couple of years old. It is one of the country’s oldest blood centers, and its tradition of forward and innovative thinking lives on in the organization’s plans to establish Louisiana’s first umbilical cord blood bank.
Cord blood is the blood [...]
The staff of Advance Innovative Education (AIE) held an all-day retreat at the home of CEO Kristy Hebert on the Monday before Thanksgiving 2009. Sitting around Hebert’s dining room table, the six-member group set out to develop a “social impact model” that would explain how the organization’s work and strategies can contribute to improving [...]
The Outreach Center has a 20-year track record of providing an array of services to individuals and families in poverty, including mental health and substance abuse treatment. Five center-operated “recovery homes” offer a place where individuals with a history of substance abuse and mental illness can stay and receive treatment.
The recovery homes have become [...]
Learning to Build Your Organization’s DNA
By Heather Peeler
Innovation. It’s a buzzword that has the potential to both inspire and exhaust us. The groundswell of attention and investment in social innovation through the White House Social Innovation Fund and the $650 million Department of Education Investing in Innovation Fund have unleashed an urgent call to action [...]
