Deborah Frieze
Deborah Frieze is the Co-President Emerita of The Berkana Institute. She founded the Old Oak Dojo, a home and an urban learning center where neighbors gather to rediscover how to create healthy communitiies. She also founded the Boston Impact Innitiative, a place-based impact investing fund that partners businesses and organizations throughout Boston to create systematic shifts in opportunities for urban communities.
Lifecycle of Emergence: Using Emergence to Take Social Innovation to Scale
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Through our work with communities in many different nations, we are learning what’s possible when we connect people across difference and distance. By applying the lessons of living systems and working intentionally with emergence and its lifecycle, we are demonstrating how local social innovation can be taken to scale and provide solutions to many of the world’s most intractable issues—such as community health, ecological sustainability, and economic self-reliance.