Winter 2014

Issue

Winter 2014

Volume 12, Number 1

The idea of “doing good and doing well” has become a mantra for many business people. In the winter 2014 issue of Stanford Social Innovation Review we feature insightful articles on two of the most innovative and popular ways of achieving these goals. “The Paradox of Fair Trade,” by Manel Modelo, explores the recent schism in the fair trade movement, and “Inside the Buy-One Give-One Model” by Christopher Marquis and Andrew Park examines the business model popularized by Toms Shoes.

Features

Social Entrepreneurship

Inside the Buy-One Give-One Model

By Christopher Marquis & Andrew Park 12

The buy-one give-one model popularized by TOMS shoes is growing in popularity and in its social impact.

Health

Lessons in Forging Global Change

By Josh Karliner, Gary Cohen, & Peter Orris

The successful 15-year campaign to eliminate mercury-based medical devices provides lessons for others creating large-scale social change.

Food

The Paradox of Fair Trade

By Manel Modelo 5

In 2011, a rift opened within the fair trade movement. What are the tensions that drove otherwise like-minded activists to form rival camps.

Social Entrepreneurship

Social Innovation From the Inside Out

By Warren Nilsson & Tana Paddock 15

Through "inscaping," people in a social purpose organization can excel at developing new ideas and practices. Includes special online extras.

What’s Next

Technology & Design

Libraries as Laboratories

By Suzie Boss

In Accra, Ghana, social entrepreneurs are working to reinvent the public library for the 21st century.

Human Rights

Blurred Images, Better Futures

By Suzie Boss

Software from a group called Ultrasafe Ultrasound promises to make it harder to practice sex-selective abortion.

Urban Development

Helping Cities Remain Strong

By Suzie Boss

A $100 million foundation initiative aims to foster urban resilience in the face of disaster.

Fundraising

The Science of Donor Connection

By Suzie Boss

A state-of-the-art database gives nonprofit leaders a tool for building relationships with potential funders.

Field Report

Nonprofits

Dressed to Thrive

By Corey Binns 1

Fitted for Work gives women what they need—from a new look to a new skill set—to advance in their careers.

Health

An Rx for Surplus Meds

By Greg Beato

The Dispensary of Hope is distributing unused pharmaceuticals to patients who need them.

Economic Development

Filling Out the Middle

By Brandon Keim 3

The Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs targets a "missing" segment in emerging economies.

Nonprofit Management

Under One Roof

By Phoung Ly

By bringing people together and by pooling resources, the Housing Partnership network expands the range of affordable places to live.

Case Study

Socially Responsible Business

How the Hub Found Its Center

By Michel Bachmann 12

After a period of crisis and transition, Impact Hub has emerged as an organization that is partly a movement, partly a business, and partly a network.

Viewpoint

Civil Society

Beyond Diplomacy

By Derek Brown 2

Civil society organizations are dramatically changing how countries bring an end to violent political conflict.

Health

CHANGE Takes Time

By Serra Sippel

The long, hard struggle to alter US policy on HIV/AIDS assistance shows that advocacy can deliver a real payoff.

Socially Responsible Business

Subsidizing Impact

By Tomohiro Hamakawa, Toshihiro Nakamura, & Ewa Wojkowska

The right formula for creating a socially beneficial enterprise often includes a strong dose of up-front philanthropic support

Nonprofits

A Field of Its Own

By Stuart C. Mendel

After many years of operating on others' academic turf, nonprofit studies is ready to claim new ground.

Research

Technology

The Call of Violence

By Jessica Ruvinsky 2

In parts of the world, expanding cell-phone coverage brings with it an increase in violent activity.

Civil Society

The Power of Being Seen

By Jessica Ruvinsky

People are more apt to behave in socially responsible ways when they think that others might take notice.

Socially Responsible Business

Off-the-Shelf or Do-It-Yourself?

By Jessica Ruvinsky

How a company supports employee voluntarism depends on whether it participates in certain kinds of external networks.

Scaling

Mapping Word of Mouth

By Jessica Ruvinsky

Spreading messages in remote villages is a matter of understanding the patterns by which villagers connect with each other.

Book Reviews

Review

Education

Stories out of School

Review By Mara Sapon-Shevin 2

The movement to reform public schools through competition and testing is a "hoax," according to a one-time promoter of the movement.

Review

Cities

Saviors at City Hall?

Review By Milton Friesen 2

Urban leaders offer a model for tackling big global problems that nation-states are failing to address.

Review

Environment

A Man of His Time

Review By Teresa Odendahl

The founder of the Worldwatch Institute and the Earth Policy Institute pursues an unfinished agenda.

Review

Socially Responsible Business

A Get-Rich Way to Help the Poor

Review By Tina Sciabica 2

There's money to be made by selling "ruthlessly affordable" products to the world's 2.7 billion poorest people.

Last Look

Human Rights

Immigrating to a New Land

By Eric Nee

Every year nonprofits and government agencies partner to help resettle the more than one million new immigrants to the United States.

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