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

Innovation is necessary to further social progress, and yet the challenges and paradoxes inherent in the endeavor cannot be avoided.

The American Nonprofits Federal Credit Union will provide loans and other much-needed financial services to member organizations.

Read an excerpt from the book.

One of 16 special essays on how the field of social innovation has evolved and what challenges remain ahead.

The views of those who benefit from social programs offers insight into a program's effectiveness.

A look at how to examine the effectiveness of community advocacy and representation.

Donors want their money to be spent wisely, but knowing where to give can be difficult.

There was a time when the all the senior staff of international NGOs working in developing countries came from North America and Europe. That is changing.

A new study highlights the realities of donor behavior and how organizations can redesign their outreach strategies to be more effective.

More money than ever is flowing into impact investing, yet many social entrepreneurs creating companies that serve the poor still find it difficult to raise capital.

A response to a recent article on high stakes donor collaborations, highlighting the New York Merger, Acquisition, and Collaboration Fund.

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

If your organization doesn’t have a mobile marketing strategy in place, it’s time to build one—here's how.

Five questions nonprofits should ask themselves as they prepare to scale.

From Skoll World Forum 2013: Will new measurement tools such as “big data” be a big distraction or a big opportunity?

Community-focused approaches disrupting the nonprofit sector.

How campaign lessons can amplify your work. In part four: ten key takeaways.

How campaign lessons can amplify your work. In part three: Embrace the change.

How campaign lessons can amplify your work. In part two: Do what you’re already doing, better.

How campaign lessons can amplify your work. In part one: digital tools for nonprofits.

Human capital is the most valuable asset in the social sector. Discover how nonprofits can create a recruiting framework and demonstrate organizational value to employees.

Rockwood Leadership Institute president Akaya Windwood discusses how we can get movements and sectors to work together to advance the common good.

Stanford Professor Tina Seelig discusses how to unlock creative genius through a set of tools and conditions we each have in our control—our “innovation engine.”

Harvard researcher Nathalie Kylander challenges traditional branding principles and proposes a new framework for developing a more strategic brand.

What is a “social economy” and how is it affecting leaders in nonprofit management?

A look at successful strategies of high-impact nonprofits, and how small and local nonprofits can leverage them.

Social media guru Beth Kanter discusses how nonprofits can utilize their professional networks to develop a “network mindset.”

In this audio interview, Sheela Sethuraman talks with Laura Stachel and Hal Aronson, co-founders of WE CARE Solar, about their effort to combat this issue worldwide. WE CARE stands for Women’s Emergency Communication and Reliable Electricity.

How can a young nonprofit organization make a tangible improvement in people's health through clean water using only the power of gravity?

What happens when you leverage the power of internet volunteerism in much the same way as Wikipedia, but with the intention of translating and subtitling videos?

Join us to explore how to address the next phase in the collective impact dialogue, complexity, and create an intentional process that allows for effective solutions. John Kania, coauthor of SSIR’s Embracing Emergence: How Collective Impact Addresses Complexity, will discuss this…

To become more effective, nonprofits and foundations are turning to various sources for advice. Some look to experts, others turn to crowdsourcing. Experts and crowds can produce valuable insights, but too often nonprofits and funders ignore the constituents who matter most, the…

Social media and the Internet have permanently disrupted the traditional donor-engagement process through online competitions, viral video campaigns, and mobile giving, to name a few. With each new way for organizations and donors to interact come increasingly complex entry points into the…

On every CEO’s “worry list” is whether he or she has the leaders the organization needs to thrive in the future. Will current managers be ready to step up? If not, then what? In this webinar, Kramer and Nayak of The Bridgespan…

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…

Learn about the changing role of brand in the nonprofit sector and a new branding framework designed to help nonprofit leaders.

How to identify and develop a funding model that will allow your organization to achieve its programmatic aspirations.

How your organization can bridge the gaps between goals, incentives, and processes when it comes to organizational learning.

What social entrepreneurs need to consider before choosing an attorney.

Large-scale social change comes from better cross-sector coordination rather than from the isolated intervention of individual organizations.