Education
Sesame Workshop: Empowering Children Through Media
What benefits children today may not affect the children of tomorrow.
Tag: Food Access
Economic Development
One Acre at a Time
One Acre Fund feeds the world’s poor by helping them feed themselves.
Socially Responsible Business
Retailing with Heart
At Panera Cares cafés, there’s a donation box where customers pay on the honor system.
Nonprofit Management
Disseminating Orphan Innovations
Disseminating innovations takes a distinct, sophisticated skill set, one that often requires customizing the program to new circumstances, not replicating.
Review
Food
Food Solutions
The Coming Famine: The Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do to Avoid It by Julian Cribb
Podcast
Social Enterprise
Madhu Sridhar - A Social Enterprise to Reduce Hunger in India
Akshaya Patra USA is an innovative social enterprise, a food program that is changing the face of education in India. In this audio interview with Stanford Center for Social Innovation correspondent Sheela Sethuraman, President and CEO Madhu Sridhar talks about how the enterprise grew from a small organization to a massive, well-run entity. She discusses its noble goals and its strategically oriented approaches to meeting high-volume demand at low cost.
Podcast
Food
Panel Discussion - Strategies to End Hunger
A food crisis is upon us. Prices are rising, supply is shrinking, and petroleum prices are spiking, all leading to increasing demand and instability regarding food in countries the world over. In this panel discussion, Robert Hormats, Helene Gayle, and Jacqueline Novogratz discuss what the financial sector, NGOs, and small farmers must do to reverse this alarming situation.
Podcast
Collaboration
Ludo Oelrich - A Public-Private Partnership that Works
"Moving the World" is a partnership between logistics company TNT and the United Nations World Food Programme, the world's largest humanitarian aid agency. Together they provide food aid to an average of 90 million people, including 56 million hungry children, in more than 80 countries. Speaking at the Stanford Effective Disruption Management Seminar, Moving the World Director Ludo Oelrich explains in this audio lecture how the benefits of this association play out both ways.