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Q&A With Desh Desphande
Serial technology entrepreneur Desh Deshpande is taking innovation techniques created at MIT and using them to solve social problems in India.
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Meeting the Challenge of Educating Girls
Educate Girls is helping more than one million Indian schoolchildren.
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Empowering India’s Girls
Sometimes collaboration is the most direct route to impact.
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Improving Sanitation for Adolescent Girls
The lack of toilets in India has a disproportionate impact on adolescent girls.
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Indian Philanthropy: By the Numbers
Indians are giving more time and more money to charitable causes in India.
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The End of Polio in India
An immense cross-sector partnership is responsible for the immunization success story.
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Better Vision for the Poor
Several social enterprises are attempting to provide eyeglasses to the 500 million to 1 billion poor people who need them. Why haven’t any of the organizations succeeded on a large scale?
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Scaling the Walls
How a nonprofit spurred the Indian government to help seniors.
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.