In our new book, The Power of Social Innovation (www.powerofsocialinnovation.com), we highlight the Bradley Foundation’s efforts to bring school choice to Milwaukee parents. The lesson there is not the inherent value of vouchers, which still raise serious questions. The real lessons are in the tools and strategies that social innovators like Bradley use to help a good idea overcome the inevitable stumbling blocks.

Your story of OSP demonstrates how important, but also just how impossibly difficult, it is to employ one of these most important approaches: mobilizing your own political constituency sufficiently powerful to overcome the existing constituencies supporting the incumbent providers.

Thanks,
Tim