Stanford Social Innovation Review

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

Public nursing homes outshine nonprofits and for-profits.

When the Salk polio vaccine proved to be effective in 1955, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis had to choose whether to close up shop or to pursue a new agenda. The foundation first broadened its mission, but lost donations, volunteers, and public support. After honing its mission to birth defects, however, it recovered. Here’s how the organization that eventually became the March of Dimes planned – and survived – its transitions.

Toxic environments knock impoverished kids’ systems out of kilter.

The Population Media Center mixes science with soap operas to protect public health.

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

The Montana Meth Project’s graphic ads saturate TV, radio, billboards, and newspapers to portray the reality of methamphetamine use, in all its grit. Scabs and body sores are just the beginning. So far, the shock factor is working. 

Many Iraq War veterans can’t shake the feeling of being constantly imperiled, and their therapists, in turn, may develop traumatic stress symptoms themselves. A new study tells how organizations can protect their frontline providers from psychic distress.

How four Chicago-area cancer support centers created a fifth nonprofit to pool their strengths.

Step aside, Stephen Covey. Kent Buse and Andrew M. Harmer have discovered seven new highly effective habits. And theirs may help rid the world of its more deadly diseases, rather than just upping people’s productivity.

Recent neuroscience research confirms that people - and the brains they contain - view drug addicts as not quite human.

How retired healthcare professionals are taking care of the uninsured.

A formerly homeless man tells what he most wanted for Christmas when he was on the streets.

Though they have their opponents, boutique-style
services can subsidize care for the poor.