Stanford Social Innovation Review

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.

It’s time to reform how we grow food and what we have for dinner.

How to get more racial minorities into corner offices.

Public nursing homes outshine nonprofits and for-profits.

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.

Nonprofits must reign in pro bono MBAs.

Contrary to stereotypes, people grow more liberal and tolerant as they age. 

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.