The Second Wednesday of Every Month

6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Join the social innovators in your community to learn, plan, and grow.

A monthly Social Innovation Forum designed to launch action. People gather early to visit, grab a bite, and connect with new people. The monthly Springboard Social Innovation Forum offers a community-based evening designed to support those interested in creating a better future. Our focus is to help practitioners or potential practitioners of social projects push beyond discussion and debate into action.

The Forum is intended to attract people with a wide range of experience and backgrounds, but with a common interest—making a difference. If you are getting tired of waiting for someone else to step up to take on issues you care about, come see how this can be a place to challenge the status quo, here and around the world. We invite people from both the business and non-profit community—investors and activists—to join in, work together, and make this a model for other cities to adopt.

The Forum inspires and teaches by sharing new ideas, presenting role models and case studies, and offering opportunities to connect. Speakers, content experts, panels, and workshops help improve strategies for planning and launching effective social ventures.



The Forum creates a context to connect, learn, and take action around ideas that lead to tangible change. Our goal is to get the "toads out of the road," those roadblocks that just don't seem to move, so you can move forward with meaningful actions. Bring your team, your board, your partner, your ideas—computers, free Internet, and experts stand ready to move your social idea forward, along with good food and drink!

Springboard staff and other community members are on-site to provide free professional services, expertise, success strategies, and just-in-time support for current projects.

Chances are, you’ll have some good answers of your own. Each forum is your chance to talk about them with others in the community who share your concern. And if you have an idea ready to turn into action, you’ll find experts ready to help you get started.

Need more information? Call us at (503) 452-6898 or email us.