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

At Panera Cares cafés, there’s a donation box where customers pay on the honor system.

Sambazon’s commitment to social entrepreneurship creates a fair market for farmers in the Amazon

Disseminating innovations takes a distinct, sophisticated skill set, one that often requires customizing the program to new circumstances, not replicating.

The Coming Famine: The Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do to Avoid It by Julian Cribb

New public-private partnerships have led to big leaps in the exportation of Argentinian wine.

Global warming may end up helping some poor farmers who will be able to sell their crops for higher prices.

What are social marketers to do when their target audience couldn’t care less about the change they want to make? Here's how one group got everyday people to care about alternative energy.

Recycla Chile, Latin America’s first e-waste recycling company, reclaims value from discarded electronics and marginalized people.

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

By paying so much attention to managing their own risks, philanthropists are no longer attending to the marginalized people who risk so much to make change happen.

How, and when, is the right time to focus on food education, not simply food security?

The best way to help the ultra poor is not by giving them a handout, but by giving them an opportunity.

In a session at the Opportunity Collaboration, stories were shared on the power and importance of community decision-making.

A unique sales strategy puts more environmentally friendly cookstoves into the hands of more cooks.

A community development corporation starts an urban farm on land that was once home to housing projects.

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.