How the Fast Food Industry Can Fight Obesity
Studies show that a majority of Americans know they are eating too much and actually wish to lose weight. So why isn’t the industry doing more to address this issue?
Sectors - Articles
Al Gore Calls on Foundations to Align Mission and Strategy
The current economic crisis is the result of a huge misalignment of short term, personal benefits and long term sustainability.
How the Now Generation of Leaders Can Change Philanthropy
"One thing I don’t want to see is young people come in and accept things as they are.”—Bill Somerville, president of the Philanthropic Ventures Foundation
Podcast
Hayagreeva Rao - Market Rebels: How Activists Make or Break Radical Innovation
Do you identify as an activist, a social entrepreneur, or both? What do they have in common? In this audio lecture sponsored by the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, Hayagreeva Rao, explores how the joined hands of activists, or "market rebels," shape markets, and how this promotes or blocks innovation. Rao's lessons are applicable to leaders in the nonprofit and for-profit spheres, marketers, and activists who harness collective action for institutional and social change.
Playing Baseball with Tennis Rackets: What’s Not Being Included in Our Collaborative Meetings
Nonprofits need to share information and resources.
Turning the Tides: The Future of Environmentally Conscious Social Innovation
A report from the global environment conference Turning the Tide.
Radical Transparency Will Change the World
A new counterbalance to corporate power is developing.
Social Innovation Fund Names Director
A conversation with Paul Carttar.
Podcast
David La Piana - Strategic Restructuring for Nonprofit Organizations
David La Piana has been recognized as a leading expert on nonprofit management and governance. In this audio lecture sponsored by the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, La Piana presents a continuum of partnership options ranging from strategic alliance to joint ventures to full-scale mergers, all to which falls under a term he has coined as strategic restructuring. Nonprofit management leaders are finding strategic restructuring as a way to respond to the current economic conditions.
Podcast
Madhu Sridhar - A Social Enterprise to Reduce Hunger in India
Akshaya Patra USA is an innovative social enterprise, a food program that is changing the face of education in India. In this audio interview with Stanford Center for Social Innovation correspondent Sheela Sethuraman, President and CEO Madhu Sridhar talks about how the enterprise grew from a small organization to a massive, well-run entity. She discusses its noble goals and its strategically oriented approaches to meeting high-volume demand at low cost.