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

The old paradigm of government aid is inadequate. What's needed are innovative solutions that foster sustainable economic growth.

Instead of treating poor people as a sink of public aid and assistance, we should view them as a source of new ideas and innovations.

Solnechny Mir (Our Sunny World) is a Russian rehabilitation center that hosts more than 250 children and their families each week.

Ai-Jen Poo, cofounder and director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, is leading a movement of US home care workers.

The Liberty Hill Foundation concentrates on helping community activists create lasting change in Los Angeles.

With hard data and soft skills, Communities in Schools fine-tunes its model to reduce dropout rates.

A South African foundation is leading the way in creating mobile-phone-based solutions for social change.

Common Ground helps reduce the number of people sleeping on New York City streets by opening residential buildings for the homeless and impaired.

Social Finance Inc. offers a network-based alternative to government-sponsored student loan programs.

A community-based program in rural Kentucky uses face-to-face social networks to promote wellness.

Catastrophes of the built environment, like the Bangladeshi factory collapse, expose the true cost in public suffering when we fail to build resiliently.

Looked at from the perspective of the political right, and the left, and the center, the proposed law making CSR mandatory is a really bad idea.

Keeping your message simple helps mobilize people in support of your goals.

A global study of healthcare social enterprises shows that partnerships, not investment, are the key to healthcare innovation and new markets.

Advance market commitments can help solve global development problems impaired by market failure.

Connecting information, applications, data, and people—a report from the Stanford 2013 Healthcare Innovation Summit.

A cross-sector initiative aims to develop 21st-century skills in secondary school students—highlights from a recent survey.

A case study on how the Human Rights Campaign successfully used online cause marketing.

Lessons for entrepreneurs abound in the new biography on Molly Melching’s work.

For social entrepreneurs, radically reframing ideas about social change can have a silver lining.

Ridwan Djamaluddin speaks on how Indonesia is using technology to deal with climate threats and implementing early warning systems to save lives.

Stanford business professor Jennifer Aaker discusses how social media can do more than just provide entertainment—it can also prolong or save lives.

Entrepreneurship concentrating on scientific collaborations and innovations is the key to fostering sustainable economic growth.

Eric Dishman, director of health innovation at Intel, asserts that mobile technologies can create sustainable healthcare for all.

Michael Jones, Google’s chief technology advocate, discusses how connection technologies are now supporting sustainable development.

Fabien Cousteau discusses innovative solutions that address environmental problems and the realities of market economies.

Media expert Tim O'Reilly provides insight into how innovative technologies can be used to support sustainable development and power the future.

USAID Chief Innovation Officer Maura O'Neill leads a discussion on how connection technologies can support sustainable development.

Katherine Perkins discusses what differentiates Physics Education Technology (PhET), and the range of students that have benefited.

Michele Barry, Director of Global Health Programs in Medicine at Stanford leads a distinguished group of global health professionals who have created innovative programs to benefit their respective countries’ health services.

Thanks to rapid advances in computer and communication technologies, it is possible for stakeholders in the nonprofit sector to disclose more, to know more, and to demand more through increased transparency and collaboration. In October, a group of the largest US foundations…

New digital media platforms and social networks have radically democratized the ways people produce, share and consume information, yet our understanding of what it means to be a leader in this new, networked society has not kept pace. Join leaders from the…

A look at the complex landscape of green tech investment, application, and implementation.

How to harness the incredible power of social media to make a difference.

The importance of innovation in the social sector and shares the process and tools of design thinking.

Ways for organizations to get started working wikily.