Stanford Social Innovation Review

Financial aid discourages innovative solutions to poverty. 

How to get more racial minorities into corner offices.

Public nursing homes outshine nonprofits and for-profits.

Would-be EDs cite inadequate mentoring, low pay, and poor lifestyle as career obstacles.

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

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

Conservative Protestants are poorer partly because of their religion.

Polak offers entrepreneurial solutions to poverty in Asia and Africa.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohammad Yunus aims for a more just society for all.

Why grassroots design will determine the winners in developing markets.
by Joshua Weissburg

The most trusted employees cash in on lax internal controls to fleece nonprofits.

The Regeneration Project helps the environmental movement get religion.

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

Dancing Deer Bakery helps most when it keeps its eye on the bottom line.

(left): CEO Patricia Karter (right) and employees ice cookies. The company hires heavily from its surrounding low-income neighborhood of Roxbury.

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.