Stanford Social Innovation Review

Humanitarian organizational leaders share their management struggles.

SSIR Academic Editor Jim Phills sat down with former NBA superstar Kevin Johnson to discuss how he’s revitalizing his old inner-city neighborhood.

Lower-income patrons of Market Creek Plaza can now invest in the shopping center.

International development organizations spend lots of money and effort building the capacity of small businesses. Yet they often fail to ask whether people want the businesses’ goods and services. As these stories from Peru show, successful programs start with real buyers who are willing to buy real products.

Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good

Habitat for Humanity’s new CEO picks up the hammer.

How an African-American banker is rebuilding her community.

Banks in Mexico say that microloans are helping the poor while boosting their profits.

When grantmakers move into the communities they serve. 

The emergence
of microenterprise development
programs internationally and in
the United States

How Mexican immigrants have forged complex government partnerships to improve living conditions back home.

How one of the world’s largest companies builds loyalty among Mexico’s poor.

What multinational corporations can learn from the base of the pyramid.

How did the Jacobs Foundation help revitalize a
neighborhood? By listening to its residents.

When a Canadian multinational laid off hundreds of
gold miners in South Africa, it went many extra
miles to help them get back on their feet.