Dear Friends:
I am pleased to share recent news from the USC Price Center for Social Innovation. In addition to new research, data stories, and upcoming events, you can review content from the recent event, "Unhoused: Addressing Homelessness in California," which we hosted in partnership with the USC Schwarzenegger Institute.
As always, thank you for your support of the Price Center. I look forward to connecting soon.
Sincerely,
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Gary Painter
Director, USC Price Center for Social Innovation
Director, Homelessness Policy Research Institute
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View Highlights from
Unhoused: Addressing Homelessness in California
On Thursday, February 13, the USC Sol Price Center for Social Innovation and the USC Schwarzenegger Institute hosted the summit Unhoused: Addressing Homelessness in California. Leading academics, elected officials, and policy practitioners gathered to examine homelessness in California and explore short and long term solutions to housing the state's most vulnerable population. Review poll and data visualizations
here.
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Price Center for Social Innovation Director Gary Painter co-authored a new paper on Social Impact Bonds. Access the full paper below.
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Price International Lab Takes
Social Innovation to Milan
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Dr. Christine Beckman, Price Family Chair in Social Innovation and Professor at the USC Price School of Public Policy, is leading a new international lab focused on social innovation. This May, 18 Price School graduate students will travel to Milan, Italy to examine the impact that social innovation approaches have on public servants working in local government.
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Watch Highlight Reel from Social Innovation Seminar with Marina Kim
On February 18, Marina Kim was featured in the Price Center’s Social Innovation Speaker Series, and discussed Marina’s work in social innovation, including her work as co-founder and leader of Ashoka U, which works with colleges and universities to embed social innovation as an educational focus and a strategic approach to aligning the university’s culture, programs and operations. To date, Ashoka U has worked with over 5,000 educators, 500 institutions, influencing over 1 million students globally.
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Dr. Christine Beckman, Price Family Chair in Social Innovation, Gives Talks on Social Innovation
Dr. Christine Beckman, Price Family Chair in Social Innovation and Professor at the USC Price School of Public Policy, will give two talks on new social innovation research. Dr. Beckman will present research
titled
"Unpacking board diversity: Women director experience and corporate social responsibility"
at
INSEAD
and the
Frankfurt School in Germany
. An abstract of the work is noted below.
Abstract:
The impact of gender board diversity on firm-level behavior has been the object of many studies but the mechanisms underlying a diversity effect have been rarely studied. We focus on research demonstrating that firms with female board members engage in more social and ethical practices to begin to unpack
why
female board members are important to firm-level behaviors. In particular, we explore how the unique and diverse experiences of female board members influence firm-level CSR behaviors. Using a sample of S&P 1500 firms, and a hand-collected database on the backgrounds of over 2,000 female board members over a 19 year period, we find that diverse functional experience and the advanced and elite educational backgrounds of female board members drive the positive association between board composition and firm-level CSR. We address the robustness of these effects given endogeneity concerns with a matched-pair analysis. Our findings support extending the important research on demographics to include deep-level differences in board member experiences, especially as the demographics of board composition shift toward more diverse representation.
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The California Department of Public Health reported in
2017
that completing a formal education is a crucial step on the pathway to securing fulfilling employment that can provide food, housing, transportation and other livelihood improvements essential to a healthy life. However, educational attainment differs across economic and racial lines.
These differences are not a predetermined fate for certain groups of students. Instead, they are indicative of systemic problems in the public education system that can be addressed given the right approach. This data story, written in collaboration with
Orenda Education
and
Think Together
, highlights work that these organizations have undertaken in partnership with school districts in Los Angeles to address educational equity.
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Californians support removing homeless camps — unless Trump does it
Sacramento Bee -
Written by
Andrew Sheeler
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LA Daily News
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Written by
John Henry
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Monday, March 2
@ 2:00pm - 4:00pm
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Wed, March 18
@ 12:00 - 1:00pm
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For more information on events, please email Events & Administrative Coordinator Stacia Fewox at
[email protected]
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The USC Price Center for Social Innovation develops ideas and illuminates strategies to improve the quality of life for people in low-income urban communities.
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LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CENTER
Contact Megan Goulding, Director of External Relations, at (213) 821-1761 or
[email protected]
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