Stanford Social Innovation Review

Small-scale efforts won’t solve the global warming crisis.

Jimmy Carter details his ongoing efforts to make a difference as John Q. Citizen.

Multinational corporations are in a quandary: Stakeholders are imposing higher standards than ever, but businesses are confused about what their global social responsibilities actually are.

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

Where have all the public servants gone?

Should water be turned into a commodity that only “haves” can pay for?

Eisler argues that “real” wealth lies in individuals and nature.

Decision making is becoming more communal.

What the public sector can teach the nonprofit and business sectors.

How states can protect nonprofit leaders and infuse more money into the sector.

Much public affairs lingo, such as “capacity,” signifies nothing in particular. The nonprofit and public sectors have more than their share of this vocabulary. There are a handful of toxic words and phrases that have a way of polluting any stream of consciousness, muddying the concepts and making it impossible to see what facts and arguments (if any) lie below the surface.

The World Bank’s Global Environment Facility may be undermined by bureaucracy.

The answers to a motivated workforce may lie in ancient Greece.

Since 1970, more than 200,000 nonprofits have opened in the U.S., but only 144 have reached $50 million in annual revenue. They got big by doing two things: They raised the bulk of their money from a single type of funder. And just as importantly, these nonprofits created professional organizations that were tailored to the needs of their primary funding sources.