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

Date Author Category Title
Winter 2008
Judith M. Gueron
Nonprofit Management Failing Well

Foundations need to make more of the right kinds of mistakes.

Winter 2008
Ellen Konar, Sheryl Sandberg, & Melissa Brown
Nonprofit Management • Philanthropy & Responsible Investing Destination Unknown [Free!]

Donors’ money isn’t going where they think it is.

Winter 2008
Alana Conner
Environment • Corporate Social Responsiblity Greening Supply Chains

When scarcity sets in, market forces can lead corporations to adopt green practices.

Winter 2008
Laura Silverstein & Erin J. Maher
Economic Development • Nonprofit Management Evaluation Blues [Free!]

How accountability requirements hurt small, innovative programs the most.

Winter 2008
Eric Nee
Nonprofit Management • Social Entrepreneurship 15 Minutes with Thomas Vander Ark

SSIR Managing Editor Eric Nee spoke with the X Prize Foundation’s president, Thomas Vander Ark, about how prizes can stimulate social innovation.

Winter 2008
Alana Conner
Government Is This the Silver Bullet?

Why narrowing the gap between the rich and poor could alleviate many social problems.

Fall 2007
David Bank
Nonprofit Management Boots on the School Ground [Free!]

An innovative federal project turns retiring military personnel into teachers.

Fall 2007
Catherine Potter
Environment • Nonprofit Management • Social Entrepreneurship Working All Fronts

How Sustainable Conservation unites all sectors for the environment.

Fall 2007
Jessica Flannery
Health Care • Social Entrepreneurship Micro-franchise Against Malaria [Free!]

How for-profit clinics are healing and enriching the rural poor in Kenya.

Fall 2007
Alana Conner
Nonprofit Management Brevity Is the Soul of Innovation

How clear, brief mission statements inspire progress.

Fall 2007
Alana Conner
Philanthropy & Responsible Investing The U-Shaped Giving Profile Explained

Most Americans give roughly the same percentage of their incomes.

Fall 2007
Alana Conner
Nonprofit Management Butter Your Way to the Top

Flattery, not good governance, reaps corporate directorships – especially for white males.

Fall 2007
Alana Conner
Arts, Culture, and Religion • Nonprofit Management Creative Spaces

Five tips for designing workplaces that nurture great ideas. 

Fall 2007
Alana Conner
Nonprofit Management The Sound of One Trap Flapping

How the vocal few can skew perceptions of public opinion.

Fall 2007
Paul Schmitz
Nonprofit Management Worst Practices of a Social Entrepreneur

You can learn more from your mistakes than from your successes. Paul Schmitz, president and CEO of Public Allies, gives a sampling of classic foibles of not only social entrepreneurs, but leaders in general. 

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