Read about how nonprofits can assess donations that pose moral concern, how corporations deploy successful circular business models, how agile collaborative initiatives can achieve social change, how a place-based approach to systems change can offer opportunity to all, and other topics in the Spring 2022 issue of Stanford Social Innovation Review.
How should a nonprofit decide whether to accept or reject a donation from a controversial source? Start by thinking about what the nonprofit gives in return.
Corporations can achieve greater environmental and financial performance by developing and implementing circular business model strategies.
Tackling the world’s many problems does not require starting with large, ambitious proposals. Instead, we should begin with minimum viable consortia—small, agile initiatives that can learn and adapt as they grow.
Social problems are entrenched in distressed communities. New approaches for uplifting neighborhoods demonstrate the scale and collaboration necessary to offer opportunity to all.
For more than four decades, Gram Vikas has been delivering equitable water and sanitation systems to deprived villages in rural India by training and encouraging them to take ownership of their solutions.
Every.org is turbocharging a new wave of philanthropy by eliminating costly technological barriers for nonprofits.
Syrinx is an AI-driven wearable device that returns human speech and, with it, human dignity.
Invisible Hate is a digital platform that informs the public about the racist history of America’s Confederate monuments so that they can take action.
Nonprofits are piloting direct cash transfer programs to help people experiencing homelessness.
Germany’s Mobile Counseling Teams empower local citizens to take back the public sphere from the far right.
Tech nonprofit Food Rescue Hero has created a promising solution to the intersecting crises of food waste and food insecurity.
Global charity A4ID boosts the ability of NGOs to fight poverty and corruption by connecting them to law firms.
Community health workers, neighborhood clinics, and real-time data bolstered America’s COVID-19 response. They could now form the cornerstone for more equitable health care.
The social sector too often extracts and siloes data from the communities it supposedly serves.
Through place-based work, we have learned new ways to partner, collect data, and invest to bring systemic change and eliminate structural inequalities in our communities.
Bossy managers can induce staffers to be less supportive of colleagues.
Corporate donations tend to generate supportive regulatory comments from their nonprofit recipients.
Performance measurement can help employees see value and meaning in their work.
Researchers find that relationship-building exercises between troubled students and their teachers cut recidivism.
John List’s The Voltage Effect offers advice for companies looking to hit it big, but does the endless pursuit of scale produce more harm than good?
Beth Breeze’s In Defence of Philanthropy offers a passionate rebuttal to criticisms of giving that have dominated public discourse.
Nonprofits need to go into relationships with donors with their eyes wide open and dispassionately weigh the risks and rewards of the exchange.
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