The Foundation for Better Ideas


Everyone's wisdom is increased by anyone's better ideas. Nonetheless, there are few places that openly welcome fresh ideas, since they often displace vested interests and careers crystallized around ideas that are growing stale. This is unfortunate since creative thinkers are the ones most likely to open the doors to greater possibilities and opportunities for all.

The  Foundation for Better Ideas and the Registry for Better Ideas (RBI) (a website of the Foundation for Better Ideas) work together to help stimulate new and meaningful opportunities for people with good ideas. The RBI is intended to provide a more hospitable environment where imaginative thinkers come to craft and share their often odd-angled questions and solutions.

The Foundation for Better Ideas is Franklinesque in its orientation. It is keenly interested in systems inventions, like Franklin's Post Office, but aware of the value in product inventions, like the Franklin stove that warmed a nation while building an industry that continues to create jobs and wealth until this day.  Hence, the Foundation for Better Ideas, and the Registry for Better Ideas, are intended to support, encourage, and generate ideas, and possibly wealth, to those with the potential to be significant idea makers.

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The Foundation for Better Ideas is established under the aegis of the Center for Studies in Higher-Order Literacy, directed by Anthony Manzo, Ph.D., Professor, Education, University of Missouri-Kansas City, manzo@smtpgate.umkc.edu

School of Education, Rm. 232, 5100 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, Missouri, 64110

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