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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Date Author Section Category Summary
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Opinion & Analysis Social Entrepreneurship Micro-Innovation: Bringing Billions into the Conversation
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Opinion & Analysis Social Entrepreneurship MicroEnergy Credits Corporation: Catalyzing Clean Energy for the BoP
Spring 2008
Rick Aubry
Articles Social Entrepreneurship • Philanthropy & Responsible Investing Review: The Power of Unreasonable People
Spring 2008
Michele Jolin
Articles Social Entrepreneurship • Philanthropy & Responsible Investing • Government Innovating the White House

How the next president of the United States can spur social entrepreneurship.

Summer 2006
John Voelcker
Articles 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 2008
Eric Nee
Articles Nonprofit Management • Social Entrepreneurship • Philanthropy & Responsible Investing 15 Minutes with Thomas Vander Ark

SSIR Managing Editor Eric Nee spoke with the X Prize Foundation’s president, Thomas Vander Ark, about how prizes can stimulate social innovation.

Fall 2007
Catherine DiBenedetto
Articles Environment • Social Entrepreneurship • Corporate Social Responsiblity Review: The Clean Tech Revolution
Winter 2005
Ellen Benjamin, DePaul University
Articles Nonprofit Management • Social Entrepreneurship Elusive Blue Ribbons

Why winning foundations’ special awards is difficult, and how it can be made easier.

Fall 2004
Sheila Kaplan
Articles Social Entrepreneurship • Corporate Social Responsiblity Review: What Matters Most
Summer 2006
Robert Gertner
Articles Social Entrepreneurship Review: Good to Great and the Social Sectors
Summer 2004
Mark R. Kramer
Articles Social Entrepreneurship Review: How to Change the World
Spring 2003
Carl Palmer
Articles Environment • Social Entrepreneurship Review: The New Economy of Nature
Spring 2007
Roger L. Martin & Sally Osberg
Articles Social Entrepreneurship Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition

Social entrepreneurship is attracting growing amounts of talent, money, and attention. But along with its increasing popularity has come less certainty about what exactly a social entrepreneur is and does. Some say that a more inclusive term is best, but the authors argue that we need a more rigorous definition.

Winter 2007
Laila Weir
Articles Nonprofit Management • Social Entrepreneurship Green Fire

A Chilean firewood certification program spares both the air and indigenous business.

Winter 2007
Anne Stuhldreher
Articles Nonprofit Management • Social Entrepreneurship The People’s IPO

Lower-income patrons of Market Creek Plaza can now invest in the shopping center.

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