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 'public+welfare'

Date Author Category Title
Winter 2007
Noah Weiss
Government Government by Numbers

How CitiStat’s hard data and straight talk saved Baltimore.

Spring 2007
Catherine DiBenedetto
Human Rights • Social Entrepreneurship • Government the business of changing the world [Free!]

The traditional approach among human rights groups in Nigeria had been accusatory: publicize injustices or sue the government. But in January 1998, on the eve of democracy, an NGO called the CLEEN foundation set out to reform law enforcement from within.

Summer 2007
Suzy Oudsema & Rick Wedell
Healthcare • Nonprofit Management Unselling Meth [Free!]

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.

Summer 2008
Stephen C. Smith
Economic Development • Social Entrepreneurship • Philanthropy, Responsible Investing • Microfinance • Book Reviews Review: Creating a World Without Poverty [Free!]

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

Summer 2008
Jonathan C. Lewis
Economic Development • Corporate Social Responsibility • Microfinance Microloan Sharks

Commercial microfinance institutions (MFIs) must calculate two bottom lines: alleviating poverty for clients and also generating profits for investors. To achieve the latter goal, some MFIs charge their impoverished clients exorbitant interest rates. The recent Banco Compartamos IPO in Mexico raises a red flag, demonstrating how easily well-intentioned MFIs and their investors can shift from microlending to microloan-sharking.

Summer 2008
Corey Binns
Education • Healthcare • Nonprofit Management • Community-Centered Planning Tackling HIV

Grassroot Soccer uses the world’s most popular sport to educate kids in sub-Saharan Africa about HIV and its prevention.

Fall 2008
Jennifer Roberts
Education • Philanthropy, Responsible Investing What’s Next: The Giving Museum

Museum teaches about ending world hunger.

Fall 2008
Stephen P. Hinshaw
Human Rights • Healthcare • Book Reviews Opening the Asylum Doors [Free!]

THE INSANITY OFFENSE: How America’s Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens by E. Fuller Torrey

Fall 2008
Carl Schramm
Government • Book Reviews Crisis of Democracy [Free!]

SUPERCAPITALISM: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life by Robert Reich

Spring 2009
Alana Conner
Philanthropy, Responsible Investing Research: Saving Lives, Not Just Souls

New research estimates the value of the services provided by faith-based organizations.

Summer 2009
Maurice Lim Miller
Economic Development • Government Reward Progress, Reduce Poverty

We must break the stereotype that low-income communities are unable to help themselves.

Summer 2009
Aaron Dalton
Economic Development • Community-Centered Planning The Parent of Invention

RAMP nurtures local inventors in India, Peru, and Indonesia

Summer 2009
Alana Conner
Arts, Culture, and Religion Research: The Violent Death of Benevolence

Research supports violent media’s negative impact on civility.

Fall 2009
Max L. Kleinman
Arts, Culture, and Religion • Philanthropy, Responsible Investing The Madoff Philanthropic Implosion

How a Jewish charity is responding to one of the biggest scams in history.

Spring 2010
David B. Grusky
Economic Development • Book Reviews Inequality Makes Us Anxious [Free!]

THE SPIRIT LEVEL: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger by Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett

Spring 2010
Bill Shore
Economic Development • Book Reviews Bearing Witness [Free!]

LOOKING FOR THE LIGHT: The Hidden Life and Art of Marion Post Wolcott by Paul Hendrickson

Spring 2010
David H. Brady & Michael Spence
Economic Development • Government The Ingredients of Growth

A close study of 13 high-growth economies suggests that, counter to some received wisdom, political leaders are an integral part of creating successful economies

Summer 2003
Mark Chaves
Arts, Culture, and Religion • Philanthropy, Responsible Investing • Government Debunking Charitable Choice [Free!]

The evidence doesn’t support the political left or right.

Winter 2003
Melinda Sacks
Government Working and Poor

Some families lack the purchasing power to eat well.

Winter 2003
Vinay Jain
Nonprofit Management • Social Entrepreneurship • Community-Centered Planning As Welcome as Can Be

For Manna, the path to affordable housing runs though a peer-support club.

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