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Ten Years of SSIR
Stanford Social Innovation Review celebrates a decade of innovative ideas and practices.
Stanford Social Innovation Review celebrates a decade of innovative ideas and practices.
The Sustainability in Prisons Project is helping US prisons reduce their operating costs and providing ex-cons a pathway to green jobs.
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?
The nonprofit Fight for Peace uses boxing to create a dialogue with hard-to-reach urban youth.
The Manoshi Project in Bangladesh is proving that 90 percent of pregnancy-related deaths are preventable.
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.
The Chinese government's new five-year plan calls for increasing the energy efficiency of new buildings.
PopTech, the annual three-day meeting of innovators and do-gooders is a cynicism breaker.
The Personal Democracy Forum revealed that 2011 is a watershed moment for work at the intersection of politics, government, and technology.
The second son of the former Libyan president wrote a dissertation entitled “The Role of Civil Society in the Democratization of Global Governance Institutions: ..."
Break Away connects campuses and communities to promote service-learning trips that inspire lifelong citizenship.
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.
How texting became young donors’ preferred way to make charitable donations.