A recent list compiled by Fast Company counted the Stanford Social Innovation Review's website as one of 51 great sites for corporate social responsibility and sustainability. Listed under 30 (plus 1) sites to complete your CSR favorites is the Stanford Social Innovation Review, "a decent site with good information for the nonprofit side of the discussion."
A recent list compiled by Change.org counted the Stanford Social Innovation Review's first issue as one of the top 10 moments of the decade in social entrepreneurship.
Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard, the latest book by SSIR academic editor and Stanford GSB professor Chip Heath, was recently featured in PARADE Magazine.Articles
Monk, Architect, Diplomat
 Three types of leadership are needed to build a successful organization. |
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Do No Evil
 Google’s philanthropy, dubbed DotOrg, launched in 2004 with bold ambitions and almost $1 billion in seed funding. But the corporate culture built by engineers proved challenging for the development experts brought in to run DotOrg. Six years later, the philanthropy’s leadership has been replaced and its ambitions have shrunk. |
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Beyond the Poverty Line
 The way the United States determines who is poor and who is not—a measure based solely on the cost of food—is broken. A new approach is needed, one that measures poverty through multiple factors such as housing, transportation, and regional economic differences. |
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Measuring Social Value
 Funders, nonprofit executives, and policymakers are very enthusiastic about measuring social value. Alas, they cannot agree on what it is or how to assess it. Their main obstacle is assuming that social value is objective, fixed, and stable. When people approach social value as subjective, malleable, and variable, they create better metrics to capture it. |
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Climate Soldiers
 THE CLIMATE WAR: True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to Save the Earth by Eric Pooley We are honored to bring you the last article written by one of the world’s most prominent climatologists, Stephen H. Schneider, who died of an apparent heart attack while flying from Sweden to London on July 19. The article is a review of the new book, The Climate War, by business journalist Eric Pooley. |
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