Economic Development
James D. Wolfensohn - Financial Crisis and a Changing Business World
SI.SD-MikeSpence.2010.04.15.mp3
Podcast
Tag: Cross-sector Collaboration
Podcast
Collaboration
Kriss Deiglmeier - New Paths to Social Innovation
The blurring of lines between nonprofits, governments, and for-profit businesses have fueled contemporary social innovation. With this convergence of market and non-market practices, we find that cross-sector collaborations provide for lasting solutions to our society's most vexing social problems. In this audio lecture, sponsored by the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, Kriss Deiglmeier, Executive Director of the CSI, defines social innovation, bringing clarity to the term, and examines its current status in theory and practice.
Nonprofits
Nonprofit Sector Needs to Be Better Understood
The nonprofit sector plays an indispensable role in society and the economy, but it is poorly understood and underappreciated.
Podcast
Measurement & Evaluation
Good Measures Conference - Evaluation: New Ways of Working Together
How does an organization get through the evaluation process and live to tell about it? In this panel, part of the Stanford Social Innovation Review's conference on evaluation, funders and fundees on both sides of the table from a variety of organizations in the areas of education and social services talk about what it was like to be in the trenches of successful evaluation processes. They tease out common success factors, including how to work collaboratively across sectors and with multiple constituents.
Nonprofits
Monk E-Business
LaserMonks, a multimillion-dollar enterprise, sells ink-jet cartridges and other office supplies online to support its Cistercian abbey in Wisconsin and to help others.
Social Innovations
Q & A: David Gergen
In this interview with James A. Phills Jr., the Stanford Social Innovation Review's academic editor, former presidential advisor David Gergen discusses his views on social innovation, why social entrepreneurs should be more engaged in politics, and how the federal government can work with and even fund social entrepreneurs.
Essentials of Social Innovation
Rediscovering Social Innovation
Social entrepreneurship and social enterprise have become popular and positive rallying points for those trying to improve the world, but social innovation is a better vehicle for understanding and creating social change in all of its manifestations.