Stanford Social Innovation Review

The Stanford Social Innovation Review is a quarterly publication, available both as a magazine and an online platform, created by the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society at Stanford University. As stated on their website, it focuses on "cross-sector solutions to global challenges" and is aimed at social change leaders from the nonprofit, business, and government sectors who believe that collaboration is essential for addressing issues related to environmental, social, and economic justice. The first issue was released in Spring 2003.

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Together We Stand

5 days ago | ssir.org | David Johnson

We editors at SSIRhave long conceived the magazine as a nonpartisan platform for the social sector. No matter which side of the political spectrum contributors and readers occupied, they could share their perspectives on how to better address social problems through philanthropy, nonprofit programs, business initiatives, public policy, and cross-sector collaborations. The first months of US President Donald Trump’s second term, however, have brought this self-understanding into question.
Sufi Whirling Dervish Protests Turkey President

5 days ago | ssir.org | Marcie Bianco

Dressed in homage to the Sufi whirling dervishes, a protester defies policeduring a protest on March 23 in Istanbul—the day Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was jailedfor alleged corruption and terrorism. Imamoglu’s pro-democratic politics havepositioned him as the leading challenger to authoritarianPresident Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Daleela AI Empowers Arabic Women With Reproductive Health Information

5 days ago | ssir.org | Valentine Benjamin

Health Daleela AI seeks to empower Arabic women with access to information about sexual and reproductive health. To read this article and start a full year of unlimited online access, subscribe now! Subscribe Now Already a subscriber? Login Need to register for your premium online access,which is included with your paid subscription? Register Now Support SSIR’s coverage of cross-sector solutions to global challenges.
National Wildlife Federation Advances Mission With E-Commerce Business and College Challenge

5 days ago | ssir.org | Marianne Dhenin

Environment Garden for Wildlife invites college students to design and plant gardens tocreate a greener future. To read this article and start a full year of unlimited online access, subscribe now! Subscribe Now Already a subscriber? Login Need to register for your premium online access,which is included with your paid subscription? Register Now Support SSIR’s coverage of cross-sector solutions to global challenges.
Expanding Nonprofit Board Fellows Programs at Top Business Schools

1 week ago | ssir.org | David Finegold |Ben Marshall

Leading a business is hard. Leading a nonprofit is even harder—nonprofit leaders typically have more stakeholders, less control, and fewer resources than their for-profit counterparts. And the headwinds are only growing stronger as charitable donations decline and as government funding faces uncertainty. Despite these challenges, training for nonprofit leaders and board members has not materially changed in the past 25 years. More can be done.
Helping NGOs and Funders Make the ‘Big Shift’ to Working With Government (SSIR)

1 month ago | ssir.org | Rakesh Rajani |Tim Hanstad |Adam Kahane

On a whim, an NGO leader walks into a fortune teller's booth. "My NGO has developed a proven intervention that is improving the lives of 10,000 people. We expect increased philanthropic funding over the next year. Please tell me how our impact will grow over time."Gazing intently into her crystal ball, the fortune teller replies, "You appear to be at a crossroad. The first path has your NGO expanding your direct services.
Winter 2025

1 month ago | ssir.org | Sonila Cook |Mariah Levin |Charu Bahri |Marianne Dhenin

Issue Winter 2025 Volume 23, Number 1 Read about how funders can achieve greater impact through the collective ownership of strategies; how the community development field should rethink financing to prioritize impact, flexibility, and local empowerment; how development professionals should work with the existing assets of informal economies; how Kenyan fishing villages are using mangrove conservation to fund local development; and other topics in the Winter 2025 issue of Stanford Social...
Fall 2024

1 month ago | ssir.org | Matteo Gasparini |Knut Haanaes |Marianne Dhenin |Valentine Benjamin

Issue Fall 2024 Volume 22, Number 4 Read about how a bipartisan 20-year campaign boosted US high school graduation rates, how US public education can serve democracy by preparing students to become better citizens, how climate alliances can help business leaders push their industries to adopt more ambitious sustainability goals, how the world’s first privately led pay-for-success experiment helped boost South Korea’s social sector, and other topics in the Fall 2024 issue of Stanford Social...
Spring 2025

1 month ago | ssir.org | Kyle Coward |Neha Bhatt |Puja Changoiwala |Deepti Doshi

Current Issue Articles on social change from the latest edition of SSIR Spring 2025 Volume 23, Number 2 Read about how community-based organizations around the world are healing the social fragmentation behind mass atrocities, genocide, and identity-based violence; how a small farm outside Dallas demonstrated how placed-based neighborhood transformation can succeed; how nonprofit leaders can use programmatic asset transfers for greater social impact; how one Latin American organization...
Spring 2024

1 month ago | ssir.org | Shaady Salehi |Nat Williams |Lorrie Allen |Ashlee George

Issue Spring 2024 Volume 22, Number 2 Read about how the health-care industry is joining the fight against climate change, how social enterprise law around the world balances the cultivation of trust with the promotion of scale, how startup cross-sector collaboratives should set their agendas for success, how Lyme disease patientsâ€™ self-advocacy led to the creation of a national vector-borne disease strategy, and other topics in the Spring 2024 issue of Stanford Social Innovation Review....