Stanford Social Innovation Review

It’s time to reform how we grow food and what we have for dinner, says Bruce Boyd, principal and managing director at Arabella Philanthropic Investment Advisors.

A popular Mexico City program for cutting air pollution from vehicles doesn’t work; in fact sales of new cars, used cars, and gasoline have climbed since the program’s launch in 1989.

Managing Editor Eric Nee spoke with Self-Help’s founder and CEO, Martin Eakes, about the subprime loan crisis and its impact on the poor.

Public nursing homes outshine nonprofits and for-profits.

Financial aid discourages innovative solutions to poverty. 

In new democracies, right-leaning elections attract foreign investors.

In most parts of the world, strangers helping strangers is strange.

The Regeneration Project helps the environmental movement get religion.

MomsRising is tapping a vast resource to improve the lives of American families.

The more race- and sex-segregated the county, the more Republican it votes.

To persuade a whole group, start by changing the minds of a few moderates.

Toxic environments knock impoverished kids’ systems out of kilter.

How the next president of the United States can spur social entrepreneurship.

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.