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 'social+enterprise'

Date Author Category Title
Summer 2006
John Voelcker
Environment • Healthcare • Social Entrepreneurship Creating Social Change: 10 Innovative Technologies

Social entrepreneurs are inventing new technologies to solve the world’s problems – disease, malnutrition, pollution, and illiteracy – to name just a few. But it takes more than a fancy new gadget to make life better. That’s why the organizations profiled here are working with businesses, NGOs, and governments to get their inventions into the hands of those who need them most.

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.

Winter 2007
Kathryn Wolford & Lisa Bonds
Arts, Culture, and Religion • Social Entrepreneurship • Fair Trade Faith in Fair Trade

How Lutherans are transforming their love of coffee into global good.

Spring 2007
Betsy Haley
Nonprofit Management • Philanthropy, Responsible Investing • Community-Centered Planning Bettering Beantown

Greenlight is a nonprofit catalyst: It identifes a local need, scours the country for the best program to meet it, and then establishes a chapter in its hometown.

Summer 2007
Eric Nee
Philanthropy, Responsible Investing 15 Minutes with Emmett Carson

SSIR Managing Editor Eric Nee met with Emmett Carson to discuss his bold plans for the newly merged Silicon Valley Community Foundation, which is now the fourth largest community foundation in the country.

Summer 2007
Carolyn Said
Environment • Social Entrepreneurship • Corporate Social Responsibility • Socially Responsible Investing Green for Green

Peter Liu started his working life as an engineer at the oil giant Chevron Corp. The experience turned him into an avid environmentalist. Several years later, it also led him to co-found the New Resource Bank, which calls itself the nation’s first “green” commercial bank.

Fall 2007
David Bank
Education • Nonprofit Management • Supported Employment Boots on the School Ground [Free!]

An innovative federal project turns retiring military personnel into teachers.

Winter 2008
Paul N. Bloom & J. Gregory Dees
Economic Development • Social Entrepreneurship Cultivate Your Ecosystem

Social entrepreneurs not only must understand the broad environment in which they work, but also must shape those environments to support their goals, when feasible. Borrowing insights from the field of ecology, the authors offer an ecosystems framework to help social entrepreneurs create long-lasting and significant social change.

Spring 2008
Rick Aubry
Social Entrepreneurship Review: The Power of Unreasonable People [Free!]

Who are social entrepreneurs and why does what they do matter?

Spring 2008
Michael Chertok, Jeff Hamaoui, & Eliot Jamison
Nonprofit Management • Social Entrepreneurship • Philanthropy, Responsible Investing • Socially Responsible Investing 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.

Spring 2008
Abby Fung
Social Entrepreneurship • Corporate Social Responsibility • Philanthropy, Responsible Investing • Supported Employment Baked Goods

Dancing Deer Bakery helps most when it keeps its eye on the bottom line.

(left): CEO Patricia Karter (right) and employees ice cookies. The company hires heavily from its surrounding low-income neighborhood of Roxbury.

Summer 2008
Paul S. Hudnut
Economic Development • Social Entrepreneurship • Community-Centered Planning • Book Reviews Review: Out of Poverty [Free!]

Polak offers entrepreneurial solutions to poverty in Asia and Africa.

Fall 2008
James A. Phills Jr., Kriss Deiglmeier, & Dale T. Miller
Nonprofit Management • Social Entrepreneurship • Corporate Social Responsibility • Philanthropy, Responsible Investing • Government 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.

Fall 2008
Jennifer Roberts
Nonprofit Management • Social Entrepreneurship What’s Next: MBA Students Venture Out

MBA students turn their attention to social enterprise.

Winter 2009
Allen L. White
Corporate Social Responsibility Confessions of a CSR Champion

It’s time to rethink the “C” in CSR.

Winter 2009
Jennifer Roberts
Education • Social Entrepreneurship What’s Next: GreenNote Friends

GreenNote helps students with no credit history obtain college loans.

Winter 2009
Alana Conner
Social Entrepreneurship Research: Starting Up Women

Successful entrepreneurs show characteristics of both men and women.

Winter 2009
Jennifer Roberts
Social Entrepreneurship What’s Next: Meet Me at the Hub

Grab a mocha and brainstorm.

Winter 2009
Kim Jonker
Economic Development • Social Entrepreneurship In the Black with BRAC [Free!]

Serving more than 110 million people per year, BRAC is the largest nonprofit in the world. Yet it doesn’t receive the most charitable donations. Instead, BRAC’s social enterprises generate 80 percent of the organization’s annual budget. These revenues have allowed the organization to develop, test, and replicate some of the world’s most innovative antipoverty programs.

Winter 2009
Diana Wells
Social Entrepreneurship • Book Reviews Deconstructing Social Entrepreneurs [Free!]

In his new book, The Search for Social Entrepreneurship, Paul C. Light, professor of public service at New York University, uses his considerable talents to provide a rich discussion of the most important issues in the field of social entrepreneurship.

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