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

Social entrepreneurs must recognize when it is time to relinquish control and create strong leadership teams.

Over the past 17 years, the Forum for African Women Educationalists has delivered high-quality education to millions of girls across 35 African countries.

ParkScan, an interactive Web tool, enages residents as park monitors.

Are elite boards getting out of touch with their organizations' true purpose?

How failing to speak up leads nonprofit boards to persist with mislaid plans.

Accountability proposals should focus more on ways to help nonprofits deal with actual ethical crises.

Eight reforms to make nonprofits more accountable and effective.

How nonprofit board size and independence relate to board performance.

The disconnect between theory and reality in nonprofit boards, and how to fix it.

Are your meetings all they can be?

Empowered boards are critical to the success of organizations.

How to use online social network tools to find the right board members—with the right networks—easier.

Introducing a corporate measurement strategy to the social sector presents a variety of potential uses and associated practices.

Imagine a new nonprofit board governance practice where organizations engaged peers to assess their work.

Predict the results of two recent development studies, conducted by IPA, one of the world's leading poverty research organizations.

The recent collapse of Hull House is a reminder that the tectonic shifts underway in the human service sector cannot be avoided.

Refresh your dashboard to better inform your board's decisions.

Face-to-face conversations among CEOs reminds and reassures them that that failure is, in fact, the norm and does not preclude success.

Why do board cultures vary so much by geography, and how can we help bring the best of them to all cities?

What needs to be under public scrutiny is the entire range of unfettered discretion in spending that some nonprofit executives—and their boards—exercise.