Recently added articles from Stanford Social Innovation Review:
From Crisis Comes Opportunity
Jan 01, 2009; ... The Great Depression was one of the most fertile periods in U.S. history for social innovation. A wave of innovative programs emerged in response to the economic and social crisis of the 1930s. Some of these went on to become established and vital institutions-such as Social Security, the ...
Letters And furthermore...
Jan 01, 2009; ... Defining Social Innovation CONGRATULATIONS TO THE authors of "Rediscovering Social Innovation" (SSIR, vol. 6, no. 4, p. 34) for making a significant contribution toward unifying a broad spectrum of mission-driven, market-oriented activity under the big tent of "social innovation." This ...
Emotional Brands Bring the Bucks
Jan 01, 2009; ... FUNDRAISING * On the morning of the 6oth D-Day anniversary, two representatives of the Royal British Legion planted 1,520 "thankyou" flags on Sword Beach in Normandy, France. Each flag represented a British service-man who died during the Allied invasion of Normandy. Nearby, another ...
Universal Care Hurt Quebec's Kids
Jan 01, 2009; ... PUBLIC POLICY * Many American parents, politicians, and nonprofits are agitating for universal child care. But a policy experiment north of the border suggests that opening daycare doors to everyone may do more harm than good. Six years after the Quebec provincial government began ...
Education of the Board
Jan 01, 2009; ... GOVERNANCE * David Malone (not his real name) just quit the board of a start-up nonprofit When he first signed on, Malone thought that he was joining "an organization of peers with deep expertise." He also understood that the board's sole requirement was to attend six meetings per ...
The Ties That Mobilize
Jan 01, 2009; ... SOCIAL ACTION * The globe holds plenty of reasons to take to the streets, yet would-be protesters seldom act on their grievances. What stirs people out of their passivity and into action? After revisiting 182 previous studies of some 15,000 people, social psychologist Martijn van Zomeren ...
The End of the World Is Nigh (Maybe)
Jan 01, 2009; ... SUSTAINABILITY * Life as we know it will come to a screeching halt within 200 years unless humans reduce their consumption, suggests a new research report "If the current trends continue, there is a very realistic possibility that we will run out of resources," explains Yogendra Shastri, ...
Objects of Power
Jan 01, 2009; ... LEADERSHIP * "Karl Marx really nailed it" says Deborah H. Gruenfeld, a professor of leadership and organizational behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. The father of communism described how employers in capitalistic societies value workers solely on the basis of their ...
We Hate Heroes
Jan 01, 2009; ... ACTION * After a month of anguished indecision, Joseph Darby, a U.S. military policeman stationed at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, sent Army authorities photographs of his colleagues torturing prisoners. For his act of heroism, he received so many death threats that he had to live in ...
Starting Up Women
Jan 01, 2009; ... ENTREPRENEURSHIP * Hidden inside most people's minds is the belief that Warren and Bill should start businesses, but Oprah and Martha should not This subtle, yet culturewide association between maleness and entrepreneurship discourages women from launching their own start-ups, research ...
Ideas: Q&A
Jan 01, 2009; ... William Brindley helps international aid organizations use information technology to save lives. WILLIAM BRINDLEY SPENT MOST of his career keeping financial institutions atthe leading edge of technology. Now, as CEO of the nonprofit consortium NetHope, he is using those same skills to ...
The New Noblesse Oblige
Jan 01, 2009; ... The New Noblesse Oblige Review by Joel Fleishman PHILANTHROCAPITALISM: How the Rich Can Save the World Matthew Bishop & Michael Green 304 pages, Bloomsbury Press, 2008 You might know Matthew Bishop, American business editor of The Economist, as the ...
Great Minds Think Different
Jan 01, 2009; ... Great Minds Think Different Review by Robert J. Sternberg ICONOCLAST: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently Gregory Berns 252 pages, Harvard Business Press, 2008 Psst ... psst. Want to be an iconoclast-someone who really shakes things up? Do ...
An Unconscionable Business
Jan 01, 2009; ... An Unconscionable Business Review by Holly Burkhalter SEX TRAFFICKING: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery Siddharth Kara 320 pages, Columbia University Press, 2009 Sex Trafficking, Siddharth Kara's me- ticulously document- ed account of the eco- nomics ...
Inspiring Innovation
Jan 01, 2009; ... DOG-EARED Inspiring Innovation Review by Jessica Jackley Flannery THE STRUCTURE OF SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS Thomas S. Kuhn 212 pages, The University of Chicago Press, Third Edition, 1996 (originally published 1962) The first text assigned in my ...
Deconstructing Social Entrepreneurs
Jan 01, 2009; ... Deconstructing Social Entrepreneurs Review by Diana Wells THE SEARCH FOR SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP Paul C. Light 192 pages, Brookings Institution Press, 2008 It's taken more than two decades, but people are finally recognizing the importance of social ...
Full Scale Ahead
Jan 01, 2009; ... How YouthBuild plans to help five times as many people BY DOROTHY STONEMAN IN 1978, AS A NEW YORK CITY SCHOOLTEACHER hoping to mobilize low-income youth into a force for change, I asked informal focus groups of East Harlem teens how they would improve their community if adults provided ...
But Does It Work?
Jan 01, 2009; ... How best to assess program performance BY JED EMERSON MORE THAN 20 YEARS AGO, when I was running a community organization that provided critical services to homeless youth, our foundation funders never asked for data on outcomes. Our public funders, meanwhile, felt satisfied with a ...
Confessions of a CSR Champion
Jan 01, 2009; ... It's time to rethink the "C" in CSR Are CSR's best days behind us? If the number of CSR (corporate social responsibility) conferences, company social reports, standards, norms, principles, and CEO pronouncements is any indicator, then the answer is no: The field is thriving. But ...
The New Volunteer Workforce
Jan 01, 2009; ... Nonprofits rely heavily on volunteers, but most CEOs do a poor job of managing them. As a result, more than one-third of those who volunteer one year do not donate their time the next year- at any nonprofit. That adds up to an estimated $38 billion in lost labor. To remedy this Situation, ...