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Innovating America

Profiles of eight award-winning projects (1986-1988) in the Innovations in State and Local Government awards Program, which is sponsored by the Ford Foundation and administered by the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. The awards honor exemplary programs and policies addressing important social and economic problems at the state and local levels.

Jordan, Fred.
1990
133 pages

Contents
Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1 Innovation: Making New: Innovation; InnovationS IN STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT; THE SEARCH FOR SUCCESSFUL InnovationS; EIGHT InnovationS; STUDYING Innovation
Chapter 2 Born to Learn in Missouri: Persistence and Strong Allies; Building a Coalition; A Group of Committed Activists; Study Results and a Pilot Program; Gearing Up; The Governor Maps a New Strategy; The Bill Passes Handily; How The Formula Works; Pat Programs Operating in 62 Sites
Chapter 3 Sandra Hale's ExposÉ of Good Government: Stepparents; How The Program Works; Making Step Work; A Step Project–Using Marketing to Improve the Parks; Another Step Project–Sentencing to Serve; Market Dynamics
Chapter 4 Innovation by the Numbers: "What Are You Doing?" "Why?"; FROM ONE Innovation TO THE NEXT; Do It Yourself; Ninety–Five Percent Perspiration; Care Sells Itself; SOURCES OF Innovation
Chapter 5 Suffer the Little Children: New Director Seeks a Long–Deferred Solution; The State Finds a Powerful Ally; A Bipartisan Effort Overhauls Adoption Laws; Father Clements Sets an Example; Changing a Complacent Bureaucracy; Chicago Program Shows Results; How One Church Plays in Peoria; Recalling the Long Arm of the Extended Family; The Program Is Firmly Institutionalized
Chapter 6 Crime and Punishment and Jiujitsu in Georgia: From Chain Gang to Model Penology; Vince Fallin; "Gradually Increasing Bands of Control"; Telling the Story
Chapter 7 Cures for Colorblindness: "Integration Does Not Just Happen"; An Absence of Panic; Setting First Priorities; A New Municipal Agency; "What Kind of Place Is This?"; Cleveland Heights; Changes Afoot; The East Suburban Council for Open Communities; The Fund for the Future of Shaker Heights and the Heights Fund; Looking to State Government; A Minority Set–Aside; Cooperation with Real Estate Firms; Open Door West; Market Response; The Role of the Schools; One Size Does Not Fit All
Chapter 8 Waste-Water Wars*: A Clash of Cultures; A New Style of Politics; Proposal, Counterproposal; Mixing Marshes with Fisheries; The Debate Intensifies; Escalation; The Regional Advocate; A Breakthrough, Then Resolution
Chapter 9 Charity Ends at Home: Questioning Newcomer; No Cost to the School Board; Challenges and Complications; The Problem of Visibility; Building a Comprehensive Program; Fundamentalism in Leslie; A Watchdog for the Schools; Dignity Under Fire; An Instructional Plus; If Not for the Center; For All Its Achievements
Chapter 10 on Innovation: On The Innovators; Institutionalization and Accountability; Into The Next Century; The Gift of Discretion
Appendix I Award Recipients: 1986; 1987; 1988
Appendix II National Committee: 1986–88; 1989-92

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