Stanford Social Innovation Review

A rare study shows how earned income helps agencies –- and how it doesn’t.

Social entrepreneurs are inventing new technologies to solve the world’s problems – disease, malnutrition, pollution, and illiteracy – to name just a few. But it takes more than a fancy new gadget to make life better. That’s why the organizations profiled here are working with businesses, NGOs, and governments to get their inventions into the hands of those who need them most.

Moving toward a sustainable model.

Variation is the rule when it comes to foundation expenses and compensation.

A Czech social enterprise uses woodworking to help drug addicts.

How an all-natural Mexican farming cooperative is improving its community while making a bundle.

Why a promising social franchise collapsed.

Project GRAD builds community support for educational reform in the inner city.

Banks in Mexico say that microloans are helping the poor while boosting their profits.

The emergence
of microenterprise development
programs internationally and in
the United States

How Mexican immigrants have forged complex government partnerships to improve living conditions back home.

The social enterprise that beat city hall.

How the North Texas Food Bank’s Community
Kitchen supplies healthy frozen dinners to the Dallas region’s hungry.

Minnesota Public Radio: social purpose capitalism.

NIAC is thriving, despite taking on clients that no one else would.