Read about how boards can liberate and strengthen their cultures, how corporations can reform their sustainability programs, how the education reform movement can reimagine student achievement in terms of opportunity, how the world can learn lessons from India’s management of the COVID-19 pandemic, and other topics in the Summer 2021 issue of Stanford Social Innovation Review.
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This article offers nine strategies to liberate board culture and provides a tool that boards may use to reflect on their own behavior and strengthen their culture.
Corporate sustainability programs have grown dramatically, but biases have crippled their effectiveness. We identify three critical steps for reform.
The old K-12 education reform coalition is now defunct. Philanthropists, educators, and other stakeholders must create a new reform coalition that reimagines student achievement in terms of opportunity.
To address the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic disruptions, India’s government, businesses, and nonprofits had to work together. Their experience provides lessons for the world on crisis management.
The government sector’s inadequate efforts to address climate change have spurred nonprofits like the emerging network Women’s Climate Centers International (WCCI) to take charge.
In 2018, Alicia Garza founded the Black Futures Lab to center the political needs and demands of Black people.
For people who are looking to invest responsibly, Adasina Social Capital has established the Adasina Social Justice Index, which informs investors about opportunities in four areas: racial justice, gender justice, economic justice, and climate justice.
The Activist Graduate School teaches people how to become activists in the tech-driven, globalized 21st century.
Gone West hires unemployed young adults to plant trees, turning reforestation into a profitable business.
Social enterprise Lesbians Who Tech & Allies has created a global network of LGBT people and their associates that has made the sector more diverse and inclusive.
The social enterprise Smart Focus grounds their solutions to China’s rural vision-care crisis in research.
An American funding collaborative is on a mission to help environmental advocates in Southeast Asia protect the Mekong River. Can it do so while navigating the tide of regional politics?
Stakeholders must have more power over the companies that affect them. Giving them a share in ownership and governance is the best way to ensure this.
New laws enabling ordinary people to become equity investors have the potential to uplift marginalized communities, if the new market creates the infrastructure to include them.
Far from constraining foundations, donor intent protects them from short-term thinking and liberates their creativity.
AI-driven food-delivery platforms create greater distrust and labor unrest among gig workers.
Police violence leads to worse educational outcomes and youth mental health in the immediate vicinity of incidents.
Frontline professionals are obligated to serve everyone who comes through their doors. Researchers investigate how they balance risk, moral emotions, and fear during a global health emergency.
Employment helps immigrants identify with the organizations they work for and integrate with society at large.
Nancy Leong’s Identity Capitalists reveals the profit motives of diversity and inclusion strategies.
Dan Breznitz’s Innovation in Real Places challenges readers to reconsider the disruptive approach to innovation.
Looking at a board through the lens of colonization can increase its effectiveness and improve board culture.
Links to all of SSIR's online-only articles published the past three months, with editors' notes about standout pieces on fighting disinformation, Indigenous entrepreneurs, multigenerational innovations, and effective virtual boards.
The Asian American and Pacific Islander communities and their allies are rallying against anti-Asian hatred by calling it out.
Implementation science has not advanced equitable outcomes routinely, explicitly, or intentionally. Here’s how it can.
Centering equity in funding relationships requires trust. It also takes time, resources, and a willingness to shift power to the people closest to the problem.
Youth and young adults helped develop and implement a new initiative, Youth Thrive, that addresses the challenges they face in foster care.
A new framework, Evidence2Success, gave the Children and Youth Cabinet a road map to put equity at the center of its work with young people.
Implementation researchers and practitioners must examine how the field can be truly equitable. A systemic approach offers a path forward.
Black children experience racial discrimination in academic environments that actively deplete their self-worth. By accessing the cultural knowledge of Black parents, Village of Wisdom co-designed a liberatory approach to education.
Implementation science must recognize faith-based organizations as key leaders of change in underserved immigrant communities.
The Bienvenido Program engages Latinx communities to better understand their mental health concerns and to develop a program that meets their needs.
To reduce mortality for people experiencing cardiovascular health disparities, new innovations in health care must be implemented with strategic partnerships that involve trusted organizations and community members.
Equity must be integrated into implementation research and practice. Here are 10 recommendations for putting equitable implementation into action.
