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

San Francisco’s five-year-old universal health care program sees positive results.

Ushahidi develops free software that allows volunteers to map humanitarian crises from their mobile phones.

New research finds that some companies are increasingly pro-diversity and others lag well behind.

Partners in Health and Abbott Laboratories are building a new plant in Corporant, Haiti to produce a therapeutic food called Nourimanba.

Membership in organizations is growing, but not what it used to be.

Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America’s Schools by Steven Brill

The diseases that get funded tend to be the ones for which funders can take credit.

Technology can empower citizens to co-create some government services.

New York’s Center for Economic Opportunity tests new antipoverty programs from the mayor’s office.

The Chinese government's new five-year plan calls for increasing the energy efficiency of new buildings.

Useful knowledge for the social sector coming from academic researchers is severely limited.

A new generation of architects and designers are raising expectations for the public interest design movement.

A follow up to the recent post "Some Questions About Udacity."

From the Field Series: A living case study of Makmende, which provides women in Nairobi with coordinated walking groups.

Exploring open spaces, parks, gardens, and trails as tools for social impact.

Universities are the missing link in entrepreneurship.

Artificial intelligence professor Sebastian Thrun quits Stanford to create a for-profit online university.

The more we share our data with each other inside and outside of our organizations, the more data-driven we can be in our work collectively.

Our greatest obstacles set the stage for new business opportunities in 2012 and beyond.

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

John Capek talks about ways we can improve the potential success for technologies in order to improve the delivery of healthcare over the next decade.

Teachers play a key role in influencing the future not only of students, but of the country and world as a whole. What contributes to teacher effectiveness?

Representatives from various investment firms explain the medical innovation funding landscape, and advise early stage innovators with creative ways to navigate these complexities.

Educators, administrators, academics, business people, and politicians talk about potential solutions, what’s working, and what isn’t.

Park discusses how methods of efficiency developed in industries outside of health care need to be brought in to rework the health care industry.

Daniel Kreeger, Executive Director of the Association of Climate Change Officers (ACCO), outlines the relatively new position of Climate Change Officer.

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

Thomas Barry, founder of the Zephyr Management investment firm, discusses widespread opportunities for private equity investment in Africa.

Thomas Gibian, Chairman of Emerging Capital Partners, discusses the success of his organization in investing in companies across the African continent through seven funds.

In this panel discussion we hear from senior government energy and technology officials on what’s up and coming with respect to environmental responsibility.

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.