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

The Entrepreneurial Finance Lab helps identify investment-worthy business people in developing countries.

Data Without Borders matches tech-savy volunteers with organizations instead of data analysis.

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

New and valuable mHealth apps are coming out all the time. What sort of open architecture can support this wave of innovation?

A recent study showed that online game communities provide access to social capital.

Richard Jefferson believes that biotechnology can be used to benefit the poor and disenfranchised, but only if the R&D process is democratized.

New micro-deposit ATMs are being deployed to reach India's unbanked.

Code for America enlists young tech talents in a year of service at city halls across the country.

Worldreader.org is using electronic reading devices to catalyze a new culture of global literacy.

Two veterans of consumer psychology, marketing, and entrepreneurship provide a guide to using social media for social change.

From the Field Series: An ongoing report of the Philanthropy, Policy, and Technology Project, which explores the use of private resources for public good.

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.

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.

A report from the first-ever Intersection Event.

Research suggests that mobile distribution had some tangible benefits for recipients of aid, but they also carried costs that could exceed those of traditional physical and voucher-based transfers.

Donors who use cell phones to make donations do more than give, they talk about it.

The redesigned website was inspired and guided by feedback from readers.

Focusing on unmet needs, healthcare entrepreneurs provide their in-the-trenches perspectives on advancing medical technologies. Working to extend and enhance lives.

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.

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

Social entrepreneur Jane Chen discusses the challenges and rewards of the developing an innovative product, and shares insights on the attitudes that allow entrepreneurs to find success.

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.

Craigslist founder Craig Newmark tells us about how he started CraigConnects, chose areas to support, and selected nonprofits to focus on.

UCLA professor Matt Kahn talks about the scope of serious environmental sustainability issues.

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.