Big Picture
Ten Years of SSIR
Stanford Social Innovation Review celebrates a decade of innovative ideas and practices.
Tamara Straus
Environment
Environmentalists in Prison
The Sustainability in Prisons Project is helping US prisons reduce their operating costs and providing ex-cons a pathway to green jobs.
Intermediaries
Foundation of the Future?
PopTech has evolved from an annual technology gathering to a social innovation accelerator that curates international conferences, initiatives, labs, and fellowships. Can it live up to its ambitions?
Education
Fight for the Future
The nonprofit Fight for Peace uses boxing to create a dialogue with hard-to-reach urban youth.
Health
Safer Deliveries
The Manoshi Project in Bangladesh is proving that 90 percent of pregnancy-related deaths are preventable.
Economic Development
Community Empowerment
Emory and Chris Rose are members of a multi-issue nonprofit—SOCM—that tackles health, employment, and environmental issues in the isolated and often struggling coalfield communities of Tennessee.
Environment
The Race Against CO2
The Chinese government's new five-year plan calls for increasing the energy efficiency of new buildings.
Technology & Design
PopTech: A Conference to Break Cynics
PopTech, the annual three-day meeting of innovators and do-gooders is a cynicism breaker.
Technology & Design
Personal Democracy Forum Gets Religious
The Personal Democracy Forum revealed that 2011 is a watershed moment for work at the intersection of politics, government, and technology.
Civic Engagement
Qaddafi Son’s Thesis on Civil Society
The second son of the former Libyan president wrote a dissertation entitled “The Role of Civil Society in the Democratization of Global Governance Institutions: ..."
Nonprofit Management
Creating Engaged Citizens
Break Away connects campuses and communities to promote service-learning trips that inspire lifelong citizenship.
Microfinance
A Sobering Assessment of Microfinance’s Impact
At a conference last week of leaders in microfinance, attendees focused on the nitty-gritty of the social impact of microlending, and the results of the discussions were both sobering and startling.
Fundraising
Five-Digit Giving
How texting became young donors’ preferred way to make charitable donations.
