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.

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Articles Tagged With 'strategic+planning'

Date Author Category Title
Spring 2003
Michael Klausner
Business • Impact Investing • Philanthropy • Foundations • Features When Time Isn’t Money Some argue that foundations should distribute at a faster rate because of the 'time value of money.' Their numbers are wrong. A cash flow discounting approach is not applicable to foundations.
Spring 2003
Robert I. Sutton
Social Innovations • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Features Sparking Nonprofit Innovation To innovate, nonprofits must do things that clash with common but misguided beliefs about managing. Here are some counterintuitive ideas to stimulate innovation in your organization.
Spring 2003
Victor Wishna
Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Social Entrepreneurship • Nonprofit Organizations • Global Issues • Economic Development • Food • What Works Let Them Make Fish The Community Culinary Training Program prepares adults -- many of whom live on public assistance -- for foodservice jobs with stable salaries and benefits.
Spring 2003
David P. Baron
Social Innovations • Cause Marketing • Nonprofits • Business • Socially Responsible Business • Global Issues • Environment • Business • Global Issues • Environment • Human Rights • Features Going Head to Head When activists miscalculate their strategic approach, their boycotts tend to falter and fade away, squandering important resources and credibility. Similarly, when companies mishandle their nonmarket strategies, they too pay a steep price.
Spring 2003
Jeffrey L. Bradach
Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Social Return on Investment • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Features Going to Scale [Free!] With few exceptions, most US nonprofits operate in a single neighborhood, town, or city. How can proven nonprofits increase their reach?
Spring 2003
Jan Masaoka
Philanthropy • Foundations • Nonprofits • Social Return on Investment • Nonprofits • Measuring Social Impact • Philanthropy • First Person The Effectiveness Trap Millions of words have been written about the need to measure the effectiveness of nonprofits, and millions of dollars have been spent doing just that. It's time to ask: What has been the impact of this effectiveness movement?
Spring 2003
Michael Fitzgerald
Business • Socially Responsible Business • Social Enterprises • Business • Socially Responsible Business • Philanthropy • Corporate Philanthropy • What Works Community Capitalists The Oakland, Calif.-based office supply company, Give Something Back, donates all of its profits to charity. This practice has turned off some potential customers.
Spring 2003
Ken Yamada
Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Nonprofits • Research Nonprofits and the News Ever wonder why some nonprofits get all the press? That's the question a pair of sociologists set out to answer, with surprising results.
Spring 2003
SSIR editor
Philanthropy • Foundations • Philanthropy • Foundations • Q&A 15 Minutes with Susan Berresford Susan V. Berresford, president of the Ford Foundation, discusses her approach to philanthropy.
Summer 2003
James Austin
Business • Socially Responsible Business Strategic Alliances Managing the collaboration portfolio.
Summer 2003
Rosanne Siino
Philanthropy • Altruism • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management The Incredible Shrinking Donor Base When nonprofits join forces, individuals give less to the cause.
Summer 2003
Gerald Burstyn
Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management The Knowing Doing Gap Human services managers are not implementing strategic decisions.
Summer 2003
David Hoyt
Social Innovations • Socially Responsible Investing • Philanthropy • Business • Socially Responsible Business Corporate Philanthropy at Cisco Systems Aligning business and social interests.
Summer 2003
Sacha Litman
Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Social Return on Investment The Peer Yardstick [Free!] Measuring success in franchise nonprofit organizations.
Summer 2003
Vinay Jain
Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Nonprofit Organizations • Global Issues • Education • Environment • Arts Not-So-Starving Artists Artists for Humanity students are also employees.
Summer 2003
Ken Yamada
Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Nonprofit Organizations • Business • Socially Responsible Business One Scoop, Two Bottom Lines Nonprofits are buying Ben & Jerry’s franchises
to help train at-risk youth.
Summer 2003
Jed Emerson
Social Innovations • Socially Responsible Investing • Philanthropy • Foundations • Business • Socially Responsible Business • Social Enterprises Where Money Meets Mission Breaking down the firewall between foundation
investments and programming.
Summer 2003
SSIR editors
Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Social Return on Investment • Nonprofit Leadership • Nonprofit Organizations • Global Issues • Health 15 Minutes with John Seffrin CEO of the American Cancer Society.
Summer 2003
Robert B. Cialdini
Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Fundraising • Global Issues • Civil Society The Power of Persuasion [Free!] Putting the science of influence to work in fundraising.
Winter 2003
Ted London & Dennis Rondinelli
Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Business • Socially Responsible Business Partnerships for Learning Managing tensions in nonprofit organizations'
alliances with corporations.
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