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

Living near safe drinking water is not the same as drinking safe water.

Manish Bapna, managing director of World Resources Institute, is helping China manage its environmental problems.

Designers have traditionally focused on enhancing the look and functionality of products. Recently, they have begun using design techniques to tackle more complex problems, such as finding ways to provide low-cost healthcare throughout the world.

Should water be turned into a commodity that only "haves" can pay for?

A two-part series on using systems mapping to predict a city’s capacity for adopting change.

A two-part series on using systems mapping to predict a city’s capacity for adopting change.

The story of water access is more complicated this World Water Day—we need a new approach.

On-the-job impact opportunities lead to happier, more productive employees.

How clearly defining measures, and keeping them simple and meaningful, has helped World Vision increase access to clean water.

It is perhaps no coincidence that the development community’s biggest successes—eradication initiatives like polio and smallpox—are precisely the ones that made monitoring central to their work.

Solving our global water and sanitation issues in a post-2015 world requires more than simply counting beneficiaries.

The restoration of the Bangalore Lakes can catalyze an overall sustainable transformation of the various districts of Bangalore—as well as reclaim an important historical connection for the city.

The importance of a nonprofit’s impact when choosing where to donate, and the top high-impact organizations working in international emergency response.

Advances in reducing poverty, environmental protection, and other global issues threaten the status quo—a report from Rio+20.

In this audio lecture, Dr. Ann Bartuska of the U.S. Department of Agriculture shares her insight on the necessary steps to sustainably feed the nine billion people that will be living on our planet by 2050.

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

Experts discuss why there are so few investments in water, where the opportunities lie for entrepreneurs and information technology, and what cleantech startups need to know about this sector.

Rajesh Shah, a 2010 Tech Award winner, shares his social entrepreneurship model that leverages technology, new media, and peer interaction to solve the water crisis.

A Single Drop for Safe Water Executive Director Kevin Lee, a 2010 Tech Award winner, describes ASDSW's work in the Philippines and beyond.

UCLA Professor Noah Goldstein discusses how the power of social norms can been used to promote energy conservation and other prosocial outcomes.

ITT Corporation’s Colin Sabol talks about the urgent need for investments in water and sanitation infrastructure.