Summer 2022

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Summer 2022

Volume 20, Number 3

Read about how the hi-tech industry can better include excluded members of society by launching operations in the heart of their communities, how health collaboratives can succeed with the proper strategies and leadership, how organizations called “pacers” are supporting entrepreneurs’ long-term success, how businesses must account for Indigenous people’s rights to manage their risks, and other topics in the Summer 2022 issue of Stanford Social Innovation Review.

Listen to interviews with authors of the summer issue on the Mission to Scale podcast.

Features

Economic Development

Tech Inclusion for Excluded Communities

By Linda Jakob Sadeh & Smadar Nehab

Bringing high-tech operations into the geographical heart of excluded communities jump-starts mass participation, galvanizing economic advancement for their members while challenging accepted norms of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Collaboration

Dynamic Strategies for Successful Health Collaboratives

By Gary Hirsch, Kate Isaacs & Ruth Wageman

Our research into 19 multistakeholder health efforts identified the crucial factors and leadership moves that together lead to success or failure.

Scaling

Pacing Entrepreneurs to Success

By Sonali V. Rammohan, Tim Weiss, Darius Teter & Jesper B. Sørensen

Entrepreneurial support organizations called pacers are helping businesses in emerging markets achieve their goals by providing services for them in the long run. A blueprint for shifting to a pacer model shows how organizations can support entrepreneurs as they grow.
Open access to this article made possible by Stanford Seed.

Human Rights

The Business Case for Indigenous Rights

By Moira Birss & Kate Finn

Companies must account for Indigenous peoples’ human and land rights to understand and address business and climate risks.

What’s Next

Environment

Reclaiming Orphan Plastics

By Senta Scarborough

TONTOTON provides businesses with an opportunity to neutralize their plastic-pollution footprint.

Arts & Culture

Art From the Desert

By Kristi Eaton

The nonprofit We Are From Dust offers art from the exclusive Burning Man festival to the public.

Education

Democratizing Social Entrepreneurship

By Ruksana Hussain

RebelBase, a project-building software company, offers entrepreneurial methods to a worldwide community of aspiring founders.

Human Rights

Reinventing the Black Press

By Likam Kyanzaire

The Fund for Black Journalism supports local reporting on Black communities throughout the United States.

Field Report

Nonprofits & NGOs

Accessibility for Outdoor Sports

By Priti Salian

India’s pioneering inclusive-sports nonprofit Adventures Beyond Barriers Foundation designs outings for disabled people.

Social Enterprise

The Farm Cooperative Fighting Crime

By Agostino Petroni

Libera Terra reclaims lands stolen by the Italian Mafia to create economic opportunities for local communities.

Energy

Community Energy Revolution

By Paul Hockenos

NGO consortium Local Energy Scotland promotes collectively owned renewable energy generation.

Case Study

Social Enterprise

Preserving Social Purpose Amid a Global Pandemic

By Gregory C. Unruh & Fernanda Arreola

Mexico’s Pixza began as a social inclusion vehicle for homeless adults through a pizza business. Its evolution demonstrates how social entrepreneurs can leverage purpose to sustain organizations through a crisis and to reengineer business models to foster greater impact.

Viewpoint

Philanthropy & Funding

Reimagining the Request for Proposal

By Devon Davey, Heather Hiscox & Nicole Markwick 2

As currently structured, requests for proposal (RFPs) are counterproductive to social change efforts. We must redesign granting systems to empower the communities in which we work.

Health

A Sense of Belonging

By Risa Wilkerson 2

Public health requires a more intentional effort toward building social connectedness.

Collaboration

How to Foster Collaborative Relationships

By Adam Seth Levine

Too often, potential collaborators focus on the why rather than the how. I offer a three-pronged approach for overcoming barriers to interaction.

Research

Government

Electability Bias Against Female Candidates

By Daniela Blei

Even voters who favor female candidates may withhold support because of worries about their ability to win.

Collaboration

Diversity, Hierarchy, and Teamwork

By Daniela Blei

Diverse teams function well only under the right leadership structure.

Nonprofits & NGOs

Elites, Citizens, and International Organizations

By Chana R. Schoenberger

The public trusts major international organizations far less than the ruling class.

Human Rights

When Discrimination Meets Meritocracy

By Chana R. Schoenberger

Hiring managers focus on qualities they deem relevant to the job, even if applying those qualities may be discriminatory.

Book Reviews

Review

Civic Engagement

Bridging Partisan Divides

Reviewed By Megan Wildhood

Mónica Guzmán’s I Never Thought of It That Way offers lessons for managing the contentious conversations of our increasingly polarized society.

Review

Nonprofits & NGOs

Grantmaking as Governance

Reviewed By Benjamin Soskis

Claire Dunning’s Nonprofit Neighborhoods examines how the US government funded the growth of—and delegated governance to—the nonprofit sector.

Editor’s Note

Technology

Creating Tech Prosperity for All

By Eric Nee

People from disadvantaged communities have largely been cut off from the tech cornucopia. It doesn’t have to be this way.

SSIR Online

Nonprofits & NGOs

SSIR Online, Summer 2022 Issue

By SSIR Editors

A collection of standout pieces published online about nonprofit boards, hybrid meetings, Web3, ESG, and public interest technology.

Last Look

Human Rights

The Teddy Bear Bus

By Marcie Bianco

Children fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine are gifted a plush toy from volunteers when they arrive in Hungary.

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