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

Chris Hughes, Facebook’s cofounder, has created a social media platform called Jumo designed specifically for nonprofits.

Why Kiva chose to be a 501(c)(3), what this tax status buys the organization, and how being a nonprofit poses challenges.

Voluntary carbon offsets allow people to invest in projects that allegedly counteract their greenhouse gas emissions. But can voluntary offsets help slow global warming? Or are offsets a way for consumers to buy their way out of bad feelings?

Pushing back against efforts that are likely to lead to disappointment, and three ways we might reframe the initiative.

The effort to make giving public and start a “giving season” won’t materially affect giving in any positive way.

Four tips for moving your social media out of zombie status—and making your investment in it worthwhile.

Serious games tap into the same culture of online friendship from social networking to fuel peer involvement and encourage collaboration around real-world challenges.

The rapid spread of social media has catapulted the possibilities and scale of relationship-building into the stratosphere.

Transforming the world of microfinance, Kiva.org has successfully implemented strategies that powerfully effect human engagement.

The massive charitable response to the devastation in Haiti should be a wake-up call for the charitable marketplace.

Jennifer Lynn Aaker discusses a repeatable method that we can follow to get people to take action, but perhaps even more important, to influence people to get others to take action as well.

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…