Fermenting Innovation
New public-private partnerships have led to big leaps in the exportation of Argentinian wine.
Collaboration - Articles
Innovative ways organizations can work together to increase their overall reach and efficacy (more)
Working Wikily
A few nonprofits are using social media to fundamentally change the way they work and increase their social impact.
Patience and Perseverance
What it takes to make change in the U.S. State Department.
Shared Services Alliances: Part 1
Creating back office alliances—an interview with John Weiser, a principal with the nonprofit technical assistance organization Opportunities Exchange.
Catalytic Philanthropy Forces Collaboration in Leadership
A look at leadership in the social sector.
Playing Baseball with Tennis Rackets: What’s Not Being Included in Our Collaborative Meetings
Nonprofits need to share information and resources.
Skoll Climate Change Panel Discusses Successes and Failures of Copenhagen
Top-down political accords versus bottom-up action—a discussion of climate change at Skoll World Forum.
Skoll World Forum 2010 Kicks Off in Oxford
The Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship focuses on “catalyzing collaboration for social change.”
Clouds and InfoStructure
Cloud-based tools encourage greater collaboration, allowing us to re-imagine problems and develop new solutions to tackle social problems.
Podcast
Kriss Deiglmeier - New Paths to Social Innovation
The blurring of lines between nonprofits, governments, and for-profit businesses have fueled contemporary social innovation. With this convergence of market and non-market practices, we find that cross-sector collaborations provide for lasting solutions to our society's most vexing social problems. In this audio lecture, sponsored by the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, Kriss Deiglmeier, Executive Director of the CSI, defines social innovation, bringing clarity to the term, and examines its current status in theory and practice.