Stanford Social Innovation Review

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

Clean technology is creating greener pastures for business.

The authors offer an inside view of corporate social responsibility at work.

Lessons for becoming the best can translate from companies to social organizations.

Key social innovators have succeeded against all odds –– and with little financial muscle.

Entrepreneurs are making conservation profitable.

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.

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

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

International development organizations spend lots of money and effort building the capacity of small businesses. Yet they often fail to ask whether people want the businesses’ goods and services. As these stories from Peru show, successful programs start with real buyers who are willing to buy real products.

Nonprofits and businesses are converging - in the value they create, the stakeholders they manage, the organizations they form, and the financial instruments they use.  The era of convergence is upon us.  Do you know how to take advantage of it?

Organic Exchange uses its global network to promote environmentally friendly fibers.

A guide for nonprofits.

How the Union Bank of California attracts lower-income people to traditional banking.