Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation

Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation
Office overview
FormedDecember 14, 2009 (2009-12-14)
HeadquartersWhite House Office
White House
Annual budget$50 million (FY 2010)
Office executive
  • David Wilkinson, Director
Parent OfficeUnited States Domestic Policy Council
Key document

The Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation was an office new to the Obama Administration, created within the White House,[1] to catalyze new and innovative ways of encouraging government to do business differently. Its first director was the economist Sonal Shah. The final director was David Wilkinson.

  1. ^ "Executive Office of the President". whitehouse.gov. December 23, 2014. Retrieved March 28, 2017 – via National Archives.