Collective Impact

The collective impact of government organizations, nonprofits, social entrepreneurs, and businesses can produce a more effective social innovation model.

Skoll World Forum: Large Scale Social Change

By Jenna Nicholas

The eighth year of the Skoll World Forum showed incredible dedication to accelerating entrepreneurial solutions to the world’s most pressing social issues.

Building Bridges

By Neil Ghosh

Ending poverty is beyond the reach of any single sector or actor

Essentials of Social Innovation

Collective Impact

By John Kania & Mark Kramer 115

Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.

Podcast

The Emerging Social Impact Market

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Annually, more than a trillion dollars are spent on millions of American nonprofit and government institutions. And 15 nonprofits are started each day. But there is still not significant progress on social issues in the United States. In this audio lecture, sponsored by the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Andrew Wolk, CEO of Root Cause, argues that the time has come for a social impact market—one that fosters innovation and collaboration across the governmental, business, and nonprofit sectors to maximize scarce resources and spread solutions. Wolk believes this cross-sector approach presents our best chance to solve long-term educational, healthcare, environmental, and other problems.