Further by design

An Innovations studio

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The system is failing, hack the system

Social entrepreneurs aren't going far enough to create systemic change, what we need are social hackers.......

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Space rock murder 200 times more likely than you winning the lottery

Don't worry, as part of NASA's Grand Challenges Initiative Further are actually on the case,

But FYI a newly discovered asteroid (named 2013 TV135) has a slight chance of smashing into Earth on August 26, 2032.

NASA's Don Yeomans notes that "this is a relatively new discovery. With more observations, I fully expect we will be able to significantly reduce, or rule out entirely, any impact probability for the foreseeable future

Find out how you can help here (seriously).

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10 Innovations Poised to Change Sustainable Industries

Fantastic article in Mashable on LAUNCH - even includes Jeff sitting casually on stage in main pic as he MC's the day @ NASA JPL

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Set your calendars for the live broadcast of #LAUNCH2020 presentations. YOU CAN Participate virtually 9/26-9/27

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"Early investment in the lives of disadvantaged children will help reduce inequality, in both the short and the long run"

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In the future world do you still need colleges?

We had a great meet at Microsoft last week at the Education Summit 2013 hosted by the Silicon Valley Leadership Group with some fascinating discussions centered around learning in the 21st century.

Some great conversations emerged as we posed the question of what learning spaces will look like in the future given the fact that education is no longer location based and is becoming more and more an experience that can happen anytime, anywhere.

The article linked here explains what a future that includes "credentialing" may look like and is a great primer for our work with the Kellogg Foundation and the Mozilla Foundation on our Digital Badging for Professionals within Early Childhood Education. 

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How NASA has furthered innovation

[...] as of last year, NASA had identified 1,800 technologies it did spin off, including breakthroughs that enabled or improved low-power heart pumps, Lasik vision correction surgery and video image stabilization......

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Can't wait to help run this again! The LAUNCH forum is coming up September 

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Our first ever Learning Journey - LJ Telluride has been simply intense, amazing, and challenging. Here is a little outtake form one of our "morning hikes"

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Head over to http://vote.launch.org/ and vote for your favorite innovators!!! 

We need public votes to decide which 10 will be chosen to be part of the LAUNCH accelerator and to present at theNASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in September. Spread the word!

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Saving the world? yeah, we do that too...NASA sets Grand Challenge to the public: find earth-destroying asteroids

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Today is a landmark day in the US!. 

It's also Pride Week and we're very proud of our work with the Global Equity Fund (yes that is our logo). 

A lot of our work culminated last week  with a keynote delivered by John Kerry at the Gays and Lesbians in Foreign Affairs Agencies (GLIFAA) Pride event at the State Department on June 19th.  During his speech, the Secretary acknowledged and thanked the governments and organizations that have partnered with the Secretary’s Global Equality Fund  - which means he thanked Further - you're welcome Secretary Kerry!

See the great blog post here on the State Departments website for additional information.

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FURTHER is getting funky fresh!  Come join our Office Party tomorrow night, celebrating the new office and brand.  Swing by and check it out, have a beer, cocktail, BBQ and play some games and meet the team.  See you there!

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HAPPY BIKE TO WORK DAY

A couple of steed options from todays Bike to Further commute

#biketoworkday

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FURTHER has just finished up work at the LAUNCH2020 Summit #LAUNCH2020 - Nike and FastCo have featured the event on it’s news pages today Astronauts, Olympic runners, American Climbing icons and more sustainability experts than we could ever imagine in the same room! Learn more about the 2013 Challenge here

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The LAUNCH 2013 Challenge Statement has been announced!  #LAUNCH2020

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ZERO STAGE!

On April 12th we will be convening leaders from the private, public and social sectors, along with Wharton students, to create frameworks for identifying and scoping complex urban challenges.  Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter will be attending.

Zero Stage is the first step in the implementation of the City of Philadelphia's winning proposal to the Bloomberg Philanthropies Mayors Challenge.  

Learn more at www.mayorschallengephl.com