Stanford Social Innovation Review

Stanford Social Innovation Review is an award-winning magazine covering best strategies for nonprofits, foundations, and socially responsible businesses. Published quarterly by the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Articles Tagged With 'advocacy'

Date Author Category Title
Spring 2007
Fraser Nelson, David W. Brady, & Alana Conner Snibbe
Nonprofit Management • Government Learn to Love Lobbying [Free!]

Most nonprofits don’t know how to lobby and, worse, think that it entails cutting shady deals with sleazy characters. Yet lobbying is nothing more than educating legislators – a right that our democracy guarantees. To make change, nonprofits must learn to lobby. And who knows? They may even learn to love it.

Fall 2007
Heather McLeod Grant & Leslie R. Crutchfield
Nonprofit Management Creating High-Impact Nonprofits [Free!]

Conventional wisdom says that scaling social innovation starts with strengthening internal management capabilities. This study of 12 high-impact nonprofits, however, shows that real social change happens when organizations go outside their own walls and find creative ways to enlist the help of others.

Winter 2007
Sandra Rothenberg & Maureen Scully
Corporate Social Responsiblity • Philanthropy & Responsible Investing • Government Rolls-Royce Radicals

Responsible Wealth, a Boston-based nonprofit, is convincing many affluent Americans to challenge the very rules that made them rich. Far from mere check writers or “limousine liberals,” these wealthy activists work against their self-interest to stamp out inequality at its source: unfair laws and policies. Their unique strategy of using privilege to contest privilege not only has attracted the rich and famous to their ranks, but also has bent the ears of senators and CEOs.

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