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This is Social Innovation

Echoing Green Fellow Elevates Waste Workers –– and the Environment –– in India

Deepa Gangwani, MBA ’04, created Together as One (TaO), a social enterprise that generates income opportunities for marginalized communities in India while providing communities with incentives to sort and segregate waste.

Helping Africans Jump-start Their Industries

Bruce McNamer, MBA '96, examines how a nonprofit’s work in Mozambique and in other developing countries is showing businesses how to break the cycle of poverty.

Viral Good

Three students, Lavanya Ashok, Aastha Gupta, and Karla Gallardo — from Jennifer Aaker’s Power of Social Technology (PoST) course — leverage their class assignment of creating a viral video to support Embrace, a social entreprise created in Jim Patell's Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability class.

MBA Class of 1980 Pools Funds and Knowledge to Fight Poverty

Project Redwood, a new venture philanthropy fund of the Stanford GSB Class of 1980, has distributed $400,000 over the past 3 years to organizations that use entrepreneurial approaches to fight poverty.

Turning on the Light for Customers on Tiny Incomes

[photo - Sam Goldman & Ned Tozun - cofounders of D.light]

Sam Goldman, MBA '07, CEO of D.light Design, finds himself running an international company whose customers are some of the poorest people in China, India, or Tanzania. The firm grew out of the Business School course Design for Extreme Affordability.

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

[photo - stanford graduate school of business]

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.

community in action

D.light Design wins the overall gold prize at Britain’s Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy.
Congratulations to Deepa Gangwani, MBA'04, 1 of 16 Echoing Green Fellows.
J. Charitha ("Chari") Ratwatte, MBA '09, wins the social enterprise competition at the 2010 social enterprise alliance summit with Rural Returns.
Stanford team, Motion Designs, wins first place in the 11th Annual Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC).

Join men and women walking across their campuses or cities in solidarity with women and girls in Africa: an awareness campaign by Jake Harriman's (MBA '08).