A collection of some of Stanford Social Innovation Review's most popular book reviews and excerpts published in 2025: Advancing Peace: Ending Urban Gun Violence Through the Power of Redemptive Love, ...

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Quality, not access, will define the future of global health. We've developed a platform to improve health-care quality worldwide.

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Collaborative philanthropy has surged in the past decade, moving billions of dollars to high-impact ventures. It’s time to dream bigger and reimagine what’s possible. By improving how we unite funders ...

In the summer of 2018, Mayor Naheed Nenshi of Calgary, Canada, decided to make mental health and addiction the cornerstone of his third term. Like many cities in North America, Calgary was ...

In an area outside Hyderabad, India, between the suburbs and the countryside, a young woman—we’ll call her Shanti—fetches water daily from the always-open local borehole that is about 300 feet from ...

The Making Missing Markets initiative is marshaling funds and support groups to help towns across the United States.

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Social change organizations in the United States have been accustomed to developing strategies in fairly resilient systems with relatively predictable patterns and behaviors. But the rapid speed, ...

One evening in the early 1970s, Michael Pachovas and a few friends wheeled themselves to a curb in Berkeley, Calif., poured cement into the form of a crude ramp, and rolled off into the night. 1 For ...