October 2, 2011
A Washington Group Gives Budding Innovators Support to Develop Their Ideas
Next Step is a new coalition of nonprofits dedicated to the use of prefabricated homes as energy-efficient low-cost housing. Stacey Epperson started Next Step while she was an Innovator in Residence at the Corporation for Enterprise Development.
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Next Step is a new coalition of nonprofits dedicated to the use of prefabricated homes as energy-efficient low-cost housing. Stacey Epperson started Next Step while she was an Innovator in Residence at the Corporation for Enterprise Development.
Cultivating new ideas to help low-income workers build wealth has always been central to the Corporation for Enterprise Development’s mission. Several years ago the Washington group started the innovation@cfed program to give structure to that commitment.
“Otherwise, we were just relying on luck,” says Andrea Levere, the organization’s president.
The centerpiece is the Innovators in Residence program. The Corporation for Enterprise Development has
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