Stanford Social Innovation Review

MacArthur “genius” prize winner creates drugs for the developing world.

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.

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. 

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

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.

It’s time to reform how we grow food and what we have for dinner, says Bruce Boyd, principal and managing director at Arabella Philanthropic Investment Advisors.

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.

President and CEO of International
AIDS Vaccine Initiative.

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

Study finds nonprofits are losing their
ability to offer health insurance.

The social enterprise that beat city hall.

Well-run organizations, not bleeding
hearts, are the key to increasing organ donations.

Founder, Partners in Health.

Americans are in the dark about nonprofits.

How one nonprofit uses an NFL team’s celebrity to improve poor children’s eyesight - and life chances.

“Crisis Mentality” sidebar.

Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy.