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Technology & Design

SSIR’s New Website Is Here

The redesigned website was inspired and guided by feedback from readers.

By Jenifer Morgan | Jan. 5, 2012
 
SSIR blogger Rich Tafel is the CEO and founder of Public Squared, a social entrepreneur training company.

Health

Mexico’s Businesses Cooperation: a Global Model for Health Care Innovation

Workplace wellness councils are emerging as one of the most powerful leaders in reducing health care costs and improving health.

By Rich Tafel | 1 | Oct. 5, 2011
 

Health

An Open Source Approach to Medical Research

An interview with Stephen Friend about using using open source to encourage collaboration and share health information.

By Roshan Paul & Alexa Clay | Oct. 3, 2011
 
SSIR blogger Eric Friedenwald-Fishman is the creative director/president of Metropolitan Group. He is the co-author of Marketing That Matters (Berrett & Koehler; the primary author of MG’s Public Will Building Framework: An Approach for Sustainable Soci

Health

There’s No Free Lunch: Public Health Crisis and Re-Imagining the School Cafeteria

The problem of unhealthy cafeteria food in public schools, how it contributes to obesity in America, and measures we can take to stop it.

By Eric Friedenwald-Fishman | 5 | Sep. 23, 2011
 

Health

From the Field: Empowering the Deaf with Dignity

Social enterprise Mirakle Couriers offers standard courier services and employs only deaf adults.

By Devanik Saha | 2 | Sep. 9, 2011
 
SSIR blogger Regina Ridley joined the Stanford Social Innovation Review in 2006 as publishing director.

Global Issues

Community Engagement Inside Kibera

Carolina for Kiberia's community focus promises to effect change that will stick.

By Regina Ridley | 4 | Sep. 1, 2011
 

Health

Breaking the Health Care Cost Trend with Innovative Service Delivery

Health care needs large-scale innovation that introduces higher-quality, lower-cost providers through a system that's mobile, digital, and efficient.

By Bob Fabbio | 1 | Aug. 19, 2011
 
Deirdre White is president and CEO at the nonprofit CDC Development Solutions (CDS).

Health

How Can Business and Government Work Together to Save a Life?

A cross sector-partnership between IBM and the Cross River government is saving lives of mothers and children across Nigeria.

By Deirdre White | Aug. 12, 2011
 
SSIR blogger Diana Jue is working toward her Master of City Planning at MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning as a member of the International Development Group. social entrepreneurship

Technology & Design

Academic-Nonprofit Partnerships Can Pick Up Where Student Innovators Leave Off

Academic-nonprofit, cross-sector partnerships have immense potential to influence long-term development, dissemination, and diffusion of technologies.

By Diana Jue | Jun. 29, 2011
 
SSIR blogger Stephanie Wolcott is social responsibility director for the Alcoa Foundation in New York City and serves as content contributor to KIN Global at the Kellogg School of Management.

Health

San+Co: Waste is Terrible Thing to Waste

A new social enterprise aims to provide a unique sanitation service to shantytowns.

By Stephanie Wolcott | 1 | Jun. 28, 2011