Think Pieces

The Think Pieces here cover a number of topics of interest to CSI and its community. From social innovation to the importance of imagination, we include articles written by CSI staff, members, friends and our many sources of inspiration.

We'll be adding to this page regularly, so stop by again soon! 

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• Constellation Governance Model – the Constellation Governance Model is a new framework for organizing multi-organizational collaboration that takes its inspiration from the emerging field of complexity science.  
• Limitless Imagination – Imagination is key to solving the myriad challenge we face today. What would it mean if we could find ways to better unleash the creative human spirit?
• Open Philanthropy –  What happens when open source philosophy is applied to traditional forms of philanthropy? What does philanthropy look like in a networked world?
• Using Emergence to take Social Innovations to Scale is an article written by Meg Wheatley and Deborah Frieze.  In this article the authors explore how networks foster emergence and, ultimately, social change.