Guest post by Mark Turner, Director of Public Policy, Colorado Nonprofit Association

Jonathan Greenblatt, director of the Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation at the White House, started off the session by expressing his appreciation for presenting at the IS Public Policy Action Institute immediately following the election. He said that his office wants to be a partner with the social sector.  

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Guest post by Irv Katz, president and CEO of the National Human Services Assembly

I assume many Independent Sector members and readers of this blog have seen the Washington Post op-ed by Bridgespan’s Daniel Stid. Harking back to Eisenhower’s warning of a Military Industrial Complex, Stid suggests that human services in the U.S. now comprise a Social Services Industrial Complex, which is, by extension, comparable to the Military Industrial Complex. The metaphor is clever but the case is sketchy at best.

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