Stanford Social Innovation Review

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

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. 

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. 

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

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.

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

Museum teaches about ending world hunger.

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

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

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

Some families lack the purchasing power to eat well.

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

How to create programs that fly under the radar screen of cutbacks.

Social entrepreneur.

For Ready, Willing & Able, finding a home
starts with cleaning the streets.

Founder, D.C. Central Kitchen.

Guerrilla marketing surveys power Urban Peak.

Liberals and conservatives have bought into the myth.

Lessons on neighborhood cooperation
from a neighborhood torn apart.

How savvy social entrepreneurs seized on a tax loophole to raise billions of corporate dollars for affordable housing.