Social innovations that improve the living standards of the poor (more)
The gig economy has upended the traditional employer-employee relationship and informalized work globally. Now workers around the world are pushing back.
Despite a notoriously innovation-adverse environment in UN organizations overall, a growing body of success stories are changing lives and contributing to continuous organizational learning.
A trial program that worked with couples in rural Zimbabwe shows the potential of a locality-based approach.
More than one billion people live in rural, isolated areas in low-income countries. Improving their access to roads and transportation is a prerequisite to unlocking better health, education, and economic outcomes.
Shunned by traditional financial systems, sex workers in Asia’s largest red-light district started their own bank. Now it is empowering other marginalized groups.
Women in the Middle East seeking to launch social enterprises face significant barriers, but they can overcome them by leveraging social ties.
What big international NGOs—BINGOs—need to learn about growing external social enterprise solutions.
As the field of social entrepreneurship is engaged in finding solutions for social inequalities, it often falls short of creating opportunities for those who suffer most from those inequalities to become protagonists.
Stories selected by the editors of Stanford Social Innovation Review’s global editions and why they chose to share them with their local audiences.
