Center for Social Innovation

It’s About the Destination

In her autobiography, The Blue Sweater, Acumen Fund founder and CEO Jacqueline Novogratz (MBA ’91) tells the story of her quest to apply business principles to social change. Pamela Hartigan, the director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School, reviews her book in Stanford Social Innovation Review.

Stanford Business School Launches New Fellowship for MBA Grads' Launching Social Ventures

Commitment to social entrepreneurship by a growing number of Stanford MBA students has inspired the Center to create a new fellowship award that will provide substantial financial and strategic support to graduates starting social ventures.

A Home Within for Foster Children Near You Soon

Dr. Heineman started A Home Within in San Francisco to heal the chronic loss of foster children. A clinical psychologist turned social entrepreneur, she partnered with the Stanford Alumni Consulting Team (ACT) to plan and organize the growth of the organization.

Enhancing Business Education for Rural Entrepreneurs

When students Scott Raymond and Katherine Boas returned from a service learning experience to Thailand and Cambodia, they brought back more than souvenirs and class credit. What they created volunteering with a program that helps to alleviate poverty in Thailand has now been duplicated at microlending organizations around the world.