Stanford Social Innovation Review: Informing and Inspiring …
sponsored “Our souls are crying out for something right now.” In a time of deep division, how can organizations reflect the vision and values of a true multiracial democracy and begin to bring people back together?
ESG Is Not Impact Investing and Impact Investing Is Not ESG
Nov 10, 2022 · Three principles define impact investing: first, there must be an expectation of financial return alongside social and/or environmental impact (or at least a return on capital); second, the change sought—typically social or environmental—must be intentional; and third, there must be an attempt to measure the change.
Social Issues - Articles - Stanford Social Innovation Review
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Measuring Outcomes to Improve Social Services (SSIR)
Dec 8, 2016 · Measurement & Evaluation Measuring Outcomes to Improve Social Services . Funders can support positive change by backing proven, replicable interventions and new measurement tools that help draw the connection between services offered and results achieved.
When It Comes to Understanding Donors, Does Size Matter Most?
Oct 10, 2024 · One of the most fundamental distinctions we tend to make in US philanthropy is between individual and institutional donors. Individual donors include both wealthy philanthropists and millions of average Americans who collectively …
Reducing Recidivism With Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Jul 7, 2021 · Criminal justice in the United States is in desperate need of reform. The nation has the highest incarceration rate in the world.Twenty percent of all of the world's prisoners are found in this country.And despite the US spending $80 billion a year on incarcerating people, it fails at rehabilitation: Of the 600,000 people released from prisons each year, 67 …
Collective Impact, 10 Years Later - Stanford Social Innovation Review
The year 2021 marks 10 years since the publication of the article “Collective Impact” in Stanford Social Innovation Review.Over the last decade, organizations working around the globe have applied the practice of collective impact to solving a broad range of social and environmental challenges, and the approach has been incorporated into …
AI Snake Oil, excerpt
Oct 15, 2024 · Imagine an alternate universe in which people don’t have words for different forms of transportation, only the collective noun “vehicle.” They use that word to refer to cars, buses, bikes, spacecraft, and all other ways of getting from place A to place B. Conversations in this world are confusing.
Community Building Is Essential to Social Change …
Nov 7, 2024 · As traditional power dynamics shift, participatory models are emerging. And as Henry Timms and Jeremy Heimans highlight in their important book, New Power, old hierarchies are giving way to more distributed networks.Soon, artificial intelligence (AI) tools will be integral to everyone’s daily lives, and they will reshape how foundations and nonprofits achieve their missions—especially when ...
How Organizations Build Trust - Stanford Social Innovation Review
Jan 11, 2024 · With funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (the views in this article do not necessarily represent those of the foundation), a team of us at Spitfire Strategies took a close look at the social science research from the last 20 years about earning and rebuilding trust, interviewed and heard from more than 25 leaders on their trust-building work, and explored case studies to see trust ...