I'm spending quite a bit of my time at the moment catching up with NESTA projects around the country and talking to people about what we should do in the future.
Yesterday we launched a new fund to support innovation in giving. It's funded by the Cabinet Office and will back ideas with the potential to achieve a big impact on how people give time, share time or give money. The sums are quite big - £10m over two years - and I'm hoping we'll get some really imaginative ideas.
I'm back after my first NESTA blog and trying to make sense of riots, wobbling financial markets and the endgame in Libya. We're in the lucky position of being able to collaborate with innovators who tend by their nature to be optimists regardless of what's happening around them.
I've been at NESTA a few weeks now and I'm going to be doing a regular update on some of the interesting projects I've been seeing, ideas I've been stumbling across and issues we've encountered.
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