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CIAC Aims to Foster Collective Efforts to Meet Challenges in St. Louis (UMSL Daily)
The University of Missouri–St. Louis is committing to help strengthen the nonprofit community in St. Louis with the formation of the Community Innovation and Action Center. It builds on the foundation of UMSL's Public Policy Research Center and Social Innovation St. Louis (September 12, 2018).
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Capacity Building for the Real World: Two Practical Frameworks from St. Louis (Alliance for Nonprofit Management)
In St. Louis, the Community Builders Network (CBN) and Thread STL have structured and implemented their own approaches to building the capacity of each entity's unique set of stakeholders. These approaches attempt to resolve the challenges and tensions inherent in such broad scale, group based capacity building (September 14, 2018).
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Evensen to Lead PPRC (UMSL Daily)
Paul Evensen, the founder and executive director of Social Innovation STL, has assumed leadership of the Public Policy Research Center at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Kristin Sobolik announced (April 10, 2018).
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Nonprofit Co-Location Revisited (Nonprofit Quarterly)
Social Innovation St. Louis (now CIAC) was featured in a Nonprofit Quarterly article about the rise of nonprofit co-location centers and why they can make an impact on nonprofits in St. Louis (September 13, 2017).
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