Stanford Social Innovation Review

Manchester Bidwell Corporation replicates by adapting general strategies to local cultures. —By Suzie Boss

RAMP nurtures local inventors in India, Peru, and Indonesia

To grow to full scale, serving 50,000 students a year, YouthBuild’s federal funding must increase from $60 million to $125 million annually. Local programs will also need to raise $250 million annually from state and local education and criminal justice funds, and from private donors. How does YouthBuild plan to achieve this breakthrough and help five times as many people? —By Dorothy Stoneman, founder and president of YouthBuild USA

LivingGoods sends its version of Avon ladies—white-uniformed “health promoters”—knocking on doors in hundreds of Ugandan communities.

Grassroot Soccer uses the world’s most popular sport to educate kids in sub-Saharan Africa about HIV and its prevention.

Polak offers entrepreneurial solutions to poverty in Asia and Africa.

SSIR Managing Editor Eric Nee spoke with Escuela Nueva’s president Vicky Colbert about her efforts to change the way children are educated.

The former president shares how ordinary citizens are helping to solve our big problems.

Despite temptations to broaden its focus, the Rural Development Institute has remained single-mindedly devoted to its mission. As a result, the organization has helped 400 million poor farmers around the world take ownership of some 270 million acres of land – all on a modest budget.