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Water Is Power
A project undertaken by Indian NGO Gram Vikas shows how efforts to solve a particular social problem can have a far reaching impact on an entire social system.
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Photo Essay: The Many Faces of Learning
India has the most youth of any country, and one of the most diverse, making education one of its biggest challenges.
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Deploying Technology
Technology alone is not the innovation. Rather, the innovation lies in how technology is deployed.
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Fixing India’s Sewage Problem
Sewage treatment systems are being built that are simpler and less expensive.
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Engaging Citizens to Improve Sanitation
The Aga Khan Development Network is empowering communities.
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Cutting Costs to Increase Impact
Focusing on reducing costs can be the key to unlocking results at greater scale. Nonprofits in India and the United States provide important lessons for NGOs around the world on just how to do that.
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Fostering Sustainable Sanitation
Gramalaya combines community mobilization with education and microfinance.
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A New Approach to Gender-Lens Grantmaking
India provides particularly fertile ground for the gender-lens grantmaking movement.
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The Power of Women’s Collectives
MHT helped launch a community-driven initiative to improve sanitation.
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Giving Back to India
Indian Americans are donating more than ever before to support broad-based social change aimed at reducing India’s inequities.
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As the world’s largest democracy, few if any countries are more important than India when it comes to the practice of social innovation. That’s why in 2015 Stanford Social Innovation Review co-produced the first print edition of Impact India, followed by a second print edition in 2017. Today, SSIR offers ongoing online coverage of social innovation in India.