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Summer 2012
Volume 10, Number 3
The United States spends far more money on health care than any other country, yet Americans are among the least healthy people in the industrialized world. Simply spending more money is not the answer. What’s needed is a creative new approach, such as the one outlined by MacArthur Genius Grant winners Rebecca Onie and Paul Farmer, along with coauthor Heidi Behforouz, in “Realigning Health with Care: Lessons in Delivering More With Less,” the cover article in the summer 2012 issue of Stanford Social Innovation Review.
Features
In Search of the Hybrid Ideal
Researchers examine the rise of hybrid organizations that combine aspects of nonprofits and for-profits and the challenges hybrids face.
Local Forces for Good
The authors of the influential book Forces for Good examine how their framework for creating high-impact nonprofits applies to local and smaller organizations.
A Big Deal for Conservation
A group of conservationists, former bankers, and management consultants have imported ideas from Wall Street to create a new way to protect large ecosystems.
Realigning Health with Care
The misalignment between the expansive goal of “health” and a cramped definition of “care” has cost the United States untold lives and treasure. Yet realignment is in reach.
Research
Can Management Consulting Help Small Firms Grow?
Economic development efforts are best served by testing and refining assumptions about what works.
Lifetime Inequality
The variation in lifetime earnings and wealth is largely determined by skills acquired by age 23.
Civic Education Through Social Networks
In Kenya, civic education programs reached 4.5 million people in advance of the 2002 election.
Reviews
Techno-Optimists Beware
Two books argue that entrepreneurs and technology are transforming the global economy.
Egypt’s No. 1 Net Activist
A riveting memoir by Egyptian revolutionary—and Google marketing executive—Wael Ghonim.
Sustainability and Self-Interest
John Elkington argues in his latest book that a new set of entrepreneurs in business, government, and universities are reinventing capitalism.
The Emerging Market Era
A "reverse innovation" guru provides anecdotes and advice about how to succeed in emerging markets.
Techno-Optimists Beware
Two books argue that entrepreneurs and technology are transforming the global economy.
First Person
Big Society Capital Marks a Paradigm Shift
How the UK’s social investment bank will harness entrepreneurship and capital to solve societal problems.
Path to a New Africa
To change Africa’s future, we must change the mindset of young Africans in college today.
Get Feedback
It is essential to build direct consumer feedback into funding criteria for government and nonprofit programs serving low-income people.
What’s Sex Got to Do with It?
An inconvenient truth is hiding behind the current excitement about educating girls.
Q&A
Elizabeth Littlefield
Elizabeth Littlefield heads up OPIC, a federal agency that helps steer billions of dollars of private investment capital to developing countries.
What's Next
A Lifeline for Mothers
Merck for Mothers—a 10-year, $500 million initiative—aims to improve the odds for vulnerable women around the globe.
Virtual Models for Real Issues
Agent-based modeling—a form of computer visualization—is being used to analyze a range of public health issues.
Coding for a Better World
SocialCoding4Good is developing an online platform to match skilled employees from the technology sector with causes that need technical help.
What Works
The End of Polio in India
An immense cross-sector partnership is responsible for the immunization success story.
Leveraging Research for China
The Rural Education Action Project uses its studies about China’s poorest places to influence government policy.
Personal Attention Reduces Poverty
Circles, a national program for helping families get out of poverty, taps an underused resource: middle-class support groups.
Case Study
Networking a City
The Barr Fellows Network is changing the way work gets done in Boston’s large and entrenched social sector.
Last Look
Safer Deliveries
The Manoshi Project in Bangladesh is proving that 90 percent of pregnancy-related deaths are preventable.
SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT
Framing the Issue
Basic principles and practices can inform efforts to monitor performance, track progress, and assess the impact of foundation strategies, initiatives, and grants.
A Focus on Culture
How the Ford Foundation is engaging its global staff in building a shared culture of results.
Learning from Silicon Valley
How the Omidyar Network uses a venture capital model to measure and evaluate effectiveness.
Shared Outcomes
How the Rockefeller Foundation is approaching evaluation with developing country partners.
Risky Business
How The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation approaches high-risk philanthropic ventures.
Assessing One’s Own Performance
What the Irvine Foundation has learned over the past six years about performance assessment.
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