Stanford Social Innovation Review : Informing and inspiring leaders of social change

The founder of the first social fund in Brazil tells his story.

Venture for America launches two-year apprenticeships for aspiring entrepreneurs.

Social investors are experimenting with a profusion of creative funding mechanisms to help innovators sustain health-improving approaches and to achieve greater impact.

Two venture capitalists and an entrepreneur discuss the challenges and opportunities that innovators confront as they seek to improve health care.

The moral legitimacy of a new market can come as much from how you sell something as from exactly what you’re selling.

Organizations should focus less on growing themselves and more on cultivating their networks.

Maternova is getting hundreds of life saving innovations to the front lines in developing countries using a new online platform.

A look at what’s needed next to create the right policy environment for innovation and results.

A veteran social entrepreneur provides a guide to those who are thinking through the thorny question of whether to create a nonprofit, a for-profit, or something in between.

Social entrepreneurs have taken the hybrid model to a new level, crafting it into a single structure that can operate as both a for-profit and a nonprofit.

Universities are the missing link in entrepreneurship.

In piloting social impact bonds, governments have already yielded some lessons from the field.

A report from the first-ever Intersection Event.

We need social change leaders who are ready to tackle systems that perpetuate injustice.

Conflict between social enterprises and government comes down to a simple matter of market overlap.

What’s unique to the Entrepreneurial Generation isn’t just that we are entrepreneurs; it’s why we’re entrepreneurs.

An interview with Ellen Moir, founder and executive director of New Teacher Center (NTC).

Modern, effective communication is about engagement.

Small businesses in the world’s 13th most unequal country are leading the way in serving low-income communities.

An interview with Tom Freston, chairman of the ONE Campaign.

Chris Bradford, co-founder of the African Leadership Academy, discusses the role of educational institutions in shaping the future of Africa.

Social entrepreneur Jane Chen discusses the challenges and rewards of the developing an innovative product, and shares insights on the attitudes that allow entrepreneurs to find success.

Jennifer Lynn Aaker discusses a repeatable method that we can follow to get people to take action, but perhaps even more important, to influence people to get others to take action as well.

Bill Drayton, founder and CEO of Ashoka, identifies key skills of change makers and lays out a plan to teach these skills around the world.

Founder of DonorsChoose.org, an online charity helping students in need, Charles Best talks about how he started the organization and what some of its challenges have been along the way.

EduCare founder and CEO Piyush Mangukiya discusses his commitment to helping students in developing countries and how he started the enterprise.

COO of Bats'il Maya Alberto Irezabal talks about the social environment in Chiapas that led to the founding of the organization, and how the co-op works.

What social entrepreneurs need to consider before choosing an attorney.