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| Fall 2007 |
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Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Nonprofit Leadership • Business • Socially Responsible Business • Global Issues • Environment |
Harnessing Purity and Pragmatism
As the wall between the nonprofit and corporate worlds crumbles, many social change organizations are asking themselves: Do we stick to our activist guns, or do we cross the divide and work with business? Research suggests that social movements need both kinds of organizations to make the changes they seek.
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| Fall 2007 |
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Business • Socially Responsible Business • Global Issues • Environment • Human Rights |
15 Minutes with Hannah Jones [Free!]
SSIR Academic Editor Jim Phills spoke with Nike’s Hannah Jones about the sportswear giant’s extensive corporate social responsibility programs.
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| Fall 2007 |
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Social Innovations • Socially Responsible Investing • Philanthropy • Altruism • Nonprofits • Social Return on Investment |
Portfolio Philanthropy
To ensure that baby boomers' wealth does not fall short of its philanthropic potential, Randall Ottinger suggests applying portfolio theory to make wiser social investments.
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| Fall 2007 |
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Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Social Entrepreneurship • Nonprofit Organizations • Government • Social Policy • Business • Socially Responsible Business • Global Issues • Environment |
Working All Fronts
How Sustainable Conservation unites all sectors for the environment.
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| Winter 2008 |
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Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Nonprofit Organizations • Government • Government Programs • Global Issues • Poverty |
Curbing Mission Creep
Despite temptations to broaden its focus, the Rural Development Institute has remained single-mindedly devoted to its mission. As a result, the organization has helped 400 million poor farmers around the world take ownership of some 270 million acres of land – all on a modest budget.
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| Spring 2008 |
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Social Innovations • Nonprofits • Social Entrepreneurship • Government • Social Policy |
Innovating the White House [Free!]
How the next president of the United States can spur social entrepreneurship.
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| Spring 2008 |
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Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Business • Socially Responsible Business |
MBAs Gone Wild [Free!]
Nonprofits must reign in pro bono MBAs.
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| Spring 2008 |
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Philanthropy • Foundations • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Nonprofit Leadership • Nonprofit Organizations • Government • Business • Social Enterprises • Global Issues • Education |
15 Minutes with Vicky Colbert
SSIR Managing Editor Eric Nee spoke with Escuela Nueva’s president Vicky Colbert about her efforts to change the way children are educated.
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| Spring 2008 |
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Social Innovations • Socially Responsible Investing • Philanthropy • Foundations • Nonprofits • Fundraising • Business • Social Enterprises |
The Funding Gap
Social enterprises combine the best of the nonprofit and for-profit worlds, but that very innovation has made it difficult for them to raise money. Philanthropists are reluctant to give grants to profit-making organizations, and commercial investors are wary of investing in organizations that are driven by a social mission. The authors explore the social enterprise capital market and offer short- and long-term solutions to this funding gap.
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| Spring 2008 |
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Government • Business • Socially Responsible Business • Global Issues • Environment |
The Greening of Wal-Mart [Free!]
For much of its history, Wal-Mart’s corporate management team toiled inside its “Bentonville Bubble,” narrowly focused on operational efficiency, growth, and profits. But now the world's largest retailer has widened its sights, building networks of employees, nonprofits, government agencies, and suppliers to “green” its supply chains. Here's how and why the world’s largest retailer is using a network approach to decrease its environmental footprint – and to increase its profitability.
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| Spring 2008 |
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Nonprofits • Nonprofit Leadership • Nonprofit Organizations • Global Issues • Environment • Religion & Culture |
Praise the Lord, but Dim the Lights
The Regeneration Project helps the environmental movement get religion.
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| Spring 2008 |
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Social Innovations • Socially Responsible Investing • Business • Socially Responsible Business • Social Enterprises • Global Issues • Poverty |
The BOP Beckons [Free!]
Why grassroots design will determine the winners in developing markets.
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| Fall 2008 |
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Social Innovations • Microfinance • Emissions Trading • Charter Schools • Socially Responsible Investing • Philanthropy • Foundations • Nonprofits • Social Entrepreneurship • Government • Social Policy • Government Programs • Business • Socially Responsible Business • Global Issues • Environment • Human Rights |
Rediscovering Social Innovation [Free!]
Social entrepreneurship and social enterprise have become popular rallying points for those trying to improve the world. These two notions are positive ones, but neither is adequate when it comes to understanding and creating social change in all of its manifestations. The authors make the case that social innovation is a better vehicle for doing this. They also explain why most of today's innovative social solutions cut across the traditional boundaries separating nonprofits, government, and for-profit businesses.
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| Fall 2008 |
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Government • Government Programs • Global Issues • Human Rights |
After Prison
Comprehensive reintegration programs will lower the U.S. recidivism rate.
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| Fall 2008 |
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Business • Socially Responsible Business • Global Issues • Human Rights |
Beyond CSR
How companies can respect human rights.
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| Fall 2008 |
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Nonprofits • Nonprofit Organizations • Business • Socially Responsible Business • Global Issues • Environment • Arts |
What’s Next: The Carrot Is Mightier Than the Stick
Rewarding the socially responsible with customers.
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| Fall 2008 |
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Social Innovations • Nonprofits • Social Entrepreneurship • Government • Social Policy |
Q & A: David Gergen [Free!]
In this interview with James A. Phills Jr., the Stanford Social Innovation Review's academic editor, former presidential advisor David Gergen discusses his views on social innovation, why social entrepreneurs should be more engaged in politics, and how the federal government can work with and even fund social entrepreneurs.
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| Fall 2008 |
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Nonprofits • Social Entrepreneurship • Nonprofit Organizations • Business • Social Enterprises • Global Issues • Religion & Culture |
Monk E-Business [Free!]
LaserMonks, a multimillion-dollar enterprise, sells ink-jet cartridges and other office supplies online to support its Cistercian abbey in Wisconsin and to help others, also.
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