Corporate Philanthropy
Collaborating To Achieve Scaled Impact
How we facilitate collaboration influences breakthroughs in innovation and scale.
Tag: Cross-sector Collaboration
Energy
This Old Green House
Clean Energy Works Portland gets consumers—and the workforce—energized about weatherization.
Nonprofits
What Folding Table Organizations Can Teach Corporate America
What corporate groups can learn from nonprofits.
Corporate Philanthropy
Do No Evil
Google DotOrg launched in 2004 with bold ambitions and almost $1 billion in seed funding. But the results have been less than stellar.
Measuring Social Impact
A Straw-Man Plan for Doing Good Better
How to make a cultural shift that leads better outcomes.
Podcast
Environment
Mindy S. Lubber - Collaborating for Environmental Sustainability
Making environmental sustainability stick is requiring the cooperation of the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. In this audio interview, Stanford Center for Social Innovation correspondent Ashkon Jafari interviews Ceres president Mindy Lubber about how her organization brings together investors, government, human rights groups, and others to build a cross-sector voice for sustainability.
Social Entrepreneurship
The Future of Leadership Development
Leadership must be more inclusive, networked, and collective.
Podcast
Economic Development
James D. Wolfensohn - Financial Crisis and a Changing Business World
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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.