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 'disease+treatment'

Date Author Category Title
Winter 2007
Eric Nee
Healthcare • Nonprofit Management • Corporate Social Responsibility 15 Minutes with Victoria Hale [Free!]

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

Fall 2007
Jessica Flannery
Healthcare • Social Entrepreneurship Micro-franchise Against Malaria [Free!]

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

Spring 2008
Georgette Baghdady & Joanne M. Maddock
Healthcare • Nonprofit Management Marching to a Different Mission

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.

Fall 2008
Jennifer Roberts
Healthcare • Social Entrepreneurship • Community-Centered Planning What’s Next: LivingGoods Calling

LivingGoods sends its version of Avon ladies—white-uniformed “health promoters”—knocking on doors in hundreds of Ugandan communities.

Spring 2009
Jennifer Roberts
Healthcare What’s Next: Texting It In
Summer 2009
Suzie Boss
Healthcare Mobilizing Against Fake Drugs

Texting emerges as a source of confirmation for drug legitimacy

Summer 2005
SSIR editors
Healthcare • Nonprofit Management 15 Minutes with Paul Farmer [Free!]

Founder, Partners in Health.

Summer 2005
Michael K. Gusmano
Healthcare Review: Strong Medicine

The strategic use of vaccines may be the key to spreading infectious diseases in the developing world.

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