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Magic Bus
Magic Bus is helping change the lives of Indian children living in poverty through a highly-scalable activity-based learning program.
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Akshaya Patra
Technical ingenuity and private funding enable Akshaya Patra to serve hot, healthy lunches to 1.4 million Indian children every day.
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Partnering With Women at the Grassroots Level
Initiatives to develop the economic potential of women are becoming a staple of corporate activity.
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Troubled Water
One of India’s largest, and most intractable, challenges is providing clean water to all of its 1.2 billion citizens.
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Lessons for Creating Better Global Health Programs
Efforts to bring promising health care interventions to resource-constrained regions of the world often falter because entrepreneurs underestimate the array of obstacles that loom in their path.
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Philanthropy’s New Frontier—Impact Investing
Philanthropists should become more active impact investors, focusing on building sustainable social enterprises often overlooked by private investors who seek market-rate returns.
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Do It the Hard Way
To ensure that its clean-water initiatives will stick and grow, Splash works with local partners that will take over when it moves on.
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Outsized Outcomes
With a sustainable program structure, skilled advocacy, and targeted technical assistance, Evidence Action helped pull off the world’s largest one-day deworming event.
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Q&A With Ram Shriram
Silicon Valley insider Ram Shriram is focusing a great deal of time, money, and energy on helping innovative NGOs improve K–12 education in India.
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Scaling Up Impact
An effort to improve sanitation in developing countries yields lessons in how to achieve enduring, broad-based social impact.
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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.