Stanford Social Innovation Review

Stanford Social Innovation Review is an award-winning magazine covering best strategies for nonprofits, foundations, and socially responsible businesses. Published quarterly by the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Articles: Nonprofit Management

Date Author Category Title
Fall 2006
Kevin Bolduc
Nonprofit Management • Philanthropy & Responsible Investing Review: Effective Philanthropy

Organizational Success Through Deep Diversity and Gender Equality

Fall 2006
Elaine Fogel
Nonprofit Management • Social Entrepreneurship How to Hire a Consultant

A guide for nonprofits.

Fall 2006
John Laurenson
Arts, Culture, and Religion • Nonprofit Management • Government The Oldest Profession

How a German nonprofit is repurposing sex workers’ skills.

Fall 2006
Dara O'Rourke
Nonprofit Management Buying In or Selling Out?

Socially responsible brands that merge with multinationals may be abandoning their principles

Fall 2006
Alana Conner Snibbe
Nonprofit Management • Social Entrepreneurship The Perils of Getting Big

Larger social service organizations may result in less innovation.

Fall 2006
Alana Conner Snibbe
Nonprofit Management • Philanthropy & Responsible Investing • Government Overhead Isn’t Everything [Free!]

How donors should think about nonprofit efficiency.

Fall 2006
Alana Conner Snibbe
Arts, Culture, and Religion • Nonprofit Management For Love or Money

Innovative plays are good for all theaters, but lucrative for only a few.

Fall 2006
Peter Asmus, Hank Cauley, & Katharine Maroney
Environment • Nonprofit Management • Corporate Social Responsiblity Turning Conflict into Cooperation

The Rainforest Action Network launched an intensive consumer boycott of several Mitsubishi companies, leading to significant changes in the way the Japanese giant and many of its partners do business. That engagement provides critical lessons for both activist NGOs and corporations.

Fall 2006
Paul C. Light
Nonprofit Management • Social Entrepreneurship Reshaping Social Entrepreneurship

Social entrepreneurship has come to be synonymous with the individual visionary – the risk taker who goes against the tide to start a new organization to create dramatic social change. The problem with focusing so much attention on the individual entrepreneur is that it neglects to recognize and support thousands of other individuals, groups, and organizations that are crafting solutions to troubles around the globe.

Fall 2006
Alana Conner Snibbe
Nonprofit Management • Philanthropy & Responsible Investing Drowning in Data [Free!]

In the frenzy over accountability, funders, donors, and the general public are calling for more program evaluation. But few understand evaluation well enough to conduct or bankroll high-quality studies. Without sufficient knowledge or funding, nonprofits are often collecting heaps of dubious data, at great cost to themselves and ultimately to the people they serve.

Summer 2006
Thomas J. Tierney
Nonprofit Management The Leadership Deficit: Research Methodology [Free!]

Research methodology for the article “The Leadership Deficit”

Summer 2006
various authors
Nonprofit Management Pundits Weigh In [Free!]

“The Leadership Deficit” sidebar

Summer 2006
Thomas J. Tierney
Nonprofit Management The Leadership Deficit [Free!]

One of the biggest challenges facing nonprofits today is their dearth of strong leaders – a problem that’s only going to get worse as the sector expands and baby boom executives retire. Over the next decade nonprofits will need to find some 640,000 new executives, nearly two and a half times the number currently employed. To meet the growing demand for talent, the author offers creative ways of finding and recruiting new leaders from a wide range of groups, including business, the military, and the growing pool of retirees.

Summer 2006
Les Silverman & Lynn Taliento
Nonprofit Management What Business Execs Don’t Know—but Should—About Nonprofits [Free!] Business leaders play vital roles in the nonprofit sector – as board members, donors, partners, and even executives. Yet all too often they underestimate the unique challenges of managing nonprofit organizations. In this article, 11 executives who have played leadership roles in both for-profits and nonprofits reveal the critical differences between the two, and suggest ways that business and nonprofit leaders can use this information to create a more effective social sector.
Summer 2006
Alana Conner Snibbe
Nonprofit Management All That Jazz

Managing innovation is more like leading a jazz band than conducting an orchestra.

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