Morino Institute

We hope that our site encourages you to think in new ways, connects you with new people and institutions and provides insightful information. The Morino Institute seeks to be a catalyst for change. Through our programs, research and partnerships with a wide variety of people and institutions, we seek to find ways for all people to have opportunity... and hope in the New Economy. The Institute is best known for its work to advance the New Economy and to cultivate the Internet-enabled entrepreneurship of this New Economy. The Institute's Netpreneur Program has created a learning community of the National Capital regions "netpreneurs" that has nurtured and helped to stimulate entrepreneurship throughout our region. Lesser known is the Institutes work exploring how the Internetand the relationships, knowledge and resources it makes possiblecan contribute to the growth and development of young people, especially those in low-income areas. This area of focus is particularly close to my heart. When I was contemplating my retirement from business in 1992, I knew that my real interest and passion could be described in three wordscommunity, youth and learning. And I wanted to understand what role the Internet could play in this area. So the Institute participated in programs that use the Internet to connect rural towns in Nebraska. We studied the use of the Internet for community and civic purposes. We worked with, supported and learned from a partnership with LEAP and worked with a range of groups working with young people, including the Childrens Defense Fund, Stand for Children, CTCNet, Plugged In and The Childrens Partnership. And in 1998, we launched the Youth Development Collaborative Pilot to understand how to use the tools of the New Economy to address much larger social issues. We worked with four community-based organizations in the District of Columbia to examine how the Internet could become a part of these organizations and their programs and how new technologies could be used to improve the ability of these ...Read More