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Arts, Culture, and Religion
Challenges and Opportunities of Nationality
Crew members on an offshore oil rig toned down their bluster and macho behavior as an unexpected side effect of an initiative to cut down on-the-job injuries. The case study, coauthored by Debra Meyerson of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, could present a model for minimizing the effects of gender in other work settings.
![[photo - Photo: Pencil Writing "Help!"]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/iStock_000008950641XSmall.jpg "[photo - Photo: Pencil Writing \"Help!\"]")
Vanessa Bohns and Francis Flynn demonstrate that people in a position to provide help tend to underestimate the role that embarrassment plays in decisions about whether or not to ask for help. As a result, potential helpers overestimate the likelihood that people will ask for help and misjudge the most effective means of encouraging help-seeking behavior.
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![[photo - Symphony Orchestra ]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/Money-and-Music.jpg "[photo - Symphony Orchestra]")
One Acre Fund feeds the world’s poor by helping them feed themselves.
JOIN THE CLUB: How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World by Tina Rosenberg
AMERICAN GRACE: How Religion Divides and Unites Us by Robert D. Putnam & David E. Campbell
20UNDER40: Re-Inventing the Arts and Arts Education for the 21st Century Edited by Edward P. Clapp
In Rwanda, Radio La Benevolencija uses soap operas to heal ethnic tensions
During its first 10 years, Creative Capital has pumped $14 million into 324 projects from a range of artistic disciplines. But Creative Capital doesn’t just fund projects, it builds careers.
Do we just care about those in our immediate surroundings?
THE SILENT LANGUAGE by Edward T. Hall
Kickstarter invites people with good ideas to post videos and other media to tell their own stories.
![[photo - Michael Harrison]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/harrison_1.jpg "[photo - Michael Harrison]")
The award is the most recent recognizing his work. Harrison was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2008, received the 2004 John von Neumann Theory Prize from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), and the 2001 Lanchester Prize from the same organization.
One Acre Fund feeds the world’s poor by helping them feed themselves.
JOIN THE CLUB: How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World by Tina Rosenberg
AMERICAN GRACE: How Religion Divides and Unites Us by Robert D. Putnam & David E. Campbell
20UNDER40: Re-Inventing the Arts and Arts Education for the 21st Century Edited by Edward P. Clapp
In Rwanda, Radio La Benevolencija uses soap operas to heal ethnic tensions
During its first 10 years, Creative Capital has pumped $14 million into 324 projects from a range of artistic disciplines. But Creative Capital doesn’t just fund projects, it builds careers.
Do we just care about those in our immediate surroundings?
THE SILENT LANGUAGE by Edward T. Hall
Kickstarter invites people with good ideas to post videos and other media to tell their own stories.
The fine arts in America are on a perilous path. Attendance at opera, theater, jazz, symphony, and ballet performances has dropped precipitously in recent decades. Just as worrisome, the median age of people attending these events has increased dramatically. If the fine arts are to survive as a living, creative, and significant force in American life, arts institutions need to radically recreate themselves.
Rosetta Thurman, author of Perspectives from the Pipeline blog, interviews Samuel Isaac Richard, an emerging, young, nonprofit leader based in Phoenix. She shares his insights on the next generation's ability to implement social change.
Rosetta Thurman interviews Lindsey McDougle, a doctoral student at the University of San Diego pursuing a degree in Leadership Studies with a specialization in Nonprofit and Philanthropic Studies. McDougle discusses what she has learned from her consulting work in the nonprofit sector: just like in the for-profit sector, leadership, strategy, and accountability are elements that all organizations, regardless of sectoral affiliation, must value. Nonprofit organizations often provide the services and goods to those most in need. Without effective leadership, deliberate strategy, and sound accountability, nonprofits run the risk of not only damaging public image of the sector, but also of letting down those who most rely on, and need, their services.
The author draws a comparison between music’s ability to combine art and science with philanthropy’s ability to do the same.
The giving sector, especially in the face of the continuing economic crisis, needs to retool its model for charitable giving and fundraising. Nonprofits, for example, should start looking at building social media into their overall fundraising and communication strategies. Often reluctant to move beyond traditional strategies, whether or not those actually produce positive results, nonprofits should look at social-media tools that are changing the way people communicate, connect and spur one another to action.
Generation Y leaders benefit from acting their age. The key to successful next generation leadership is to be who you are, not what you think an “official” nonprofit leader looks like. Craft your own brand of leadership, and others will see you as an authentic person they can follow and trust.
High school kids restore faith in the next generation of social change.
Twitter and Search prove promising to the nonprofit world.
Interview with Abby Suckow and Connie Torrey, Collaboration Prize co-winners from the JCC and YMCA of the Greater Toledo area.
Remixes are becoming an ever growing part of contemporary culture consequently posing an interesting dilemma for cases of copy-right infringement. Where should we draw the line?
The opportunity has come to reframe, rethink, re-set, and re-build some of the things we take most for granted.
How do we get individuals to practice healthier habits and influence positive behavior change? The "Behavior Wizard" offers technology-based solutions in this audio lecture.
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![[photo - Challenges and Opportunities of Nationality]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/podcast_img/Panel_Discussion_Microphone_CROPPED_2.jpg "[photo - Challenges and Opportunities of Nationality ]")
A 2008 Skoll World Forum panel explores how social innovation can both mitigate the pernicious consequences of the xenophobia and insularity inherent in nationalism, and enhance the positive opportunities for social change within established heritage and cultural traditions.
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A panel of social entrepreneurship and ethics experts considers how empathetic ethics has to begin with individuals and can only then move into the organizations we lead and the societies we serve.
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![[photo - Professor in Economics]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/podcast_img/3570%5B1%5D.jpg "[photo - Professor in Economics]")
University of Chicago professor David Galenson says that contributions to the greater good can be made at any time in life and that social innovation is more about slow burn than flash in the pan.
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Professor Marion Nestle offers simple advice about how to bring "nutrition" back into the food realm and discusses how agriculture and business interact to produce the foodstuffs on our shelves.
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![[photo - Brij Kothari]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/podcast_img/3604%5B1%5D.jpg "[photo - Brij Kothari]")
Brij Kothari, president of Planet Read, describes how he uses entertainment--including Bollywood music videos--to teach millions to read.
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![[photo - Fazle H. Abed]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/podcast_img/3218.jpg "[photo - Fazle H. Abed]")
The founder of the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee explains how the organization is striving to improve education, health, gender equality, the environment, and economic well-being in that country.
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![[photo - Rick Lowe]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/podcast_img/3228%5B1%5D_0.jpg "[photo - Rick Lowe]")
Designer and Heinz Award winner Rick Lowe describes his organization, Project Row Houses, that redefines the role of artists in society.
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![[photo - Marty Ashby]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/podcast_img/2977%5B1%5D.jpg "[photo - Marty Ashby]")
MCG Jazz executive producer Marty Ashby talks about how he works with musicians to donate some of their proceeds to a community arts and vocational training center in Pittsburgh.
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![[photo - Bill Strickland]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/podcast_img/2992%5B1%5D.jpg "[photo - Bill Strickland]")
On Pittsburgh's gritty north side, Bill Strickland has created a youth development and adult training center. He talks about programs that get kids into college and adults a job with a future.
You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
How do we get individuals to practice healthier habits and influence positive behavior change? The "Behavior Wizard" offers technology-based solutions in this audio lecture.
You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
A 2008 Skoll World Forum panel explores how social innovation can both mitigate the pernicious consequences of the xenophobia and insularity inherent in nationalism, and enhance the positive opportunities for social change within established heritage and cultural traditions.
You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
A panel of social entrepreneurship and ethics experts considers how empathetic ethics has to begin with individuals and can only then move into the organizations we lead and the societies we serve.
You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
University of Chicago professor David Galenson says that contributions to the greater good can be made at any time in life and that social innovation is more about slow burn than flash in the pan.
You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
Professor Marion Nestle offers simple advice about how to bring "nutrition" back into the food realm and discusses how agriculture and business interact to produce the foodstuffs on our shelves.
You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
Brij Kothari, president of Planet Read, describes how he uses entertainment--including Bollywood music videos--to teach millions to read.
You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
The founder of the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee explains how the organization is striving to improve education, health, gender equality, the environment, and economic well-being in that country.
You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
Designer and Heinz Award winner Rick Lowe describes his organization, Project Row Houses, that redefines the role of artists in society.
You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
MCG Jazz executive producer Marty Ashby talks about how he works with musicians to donate some of their proceeds to a community arts and vocational training center in Pittsburgh.
You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
On Pittsburgh's gritty north side, Bill Strickland has created a youth development and adult training center. He talks about programs that get kids into college and adults a job with a future.
You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
![[photo - James A. Phills]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/phills-james-a_5.jpg "[photo - James A. Phills]")
Circus Oz, Australia’s premier, international circus, was exploring offering the new development officer position a higher-than-normal salary. The case and its companion videocase cover the organization’s dilemmas around this, and the situation’s resolution.
Innermotion dance company presents performances based on themes related to incest and childhood sexual abuse. This video explores how the founder must reexamine her focus and priorities when faced with the loss of a major grant.
![[photo - George Foster]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/foster-george_2.jpg "[photo - George Foster]")
Visa’s executive vice president of international marketing, partnerships, and sponsorship played a key role in convincing Visa’s six regional boards and its international board to allow Visa to extend its Olympics and Paralympics sponsorship. His team planned to discuss the current corporate strategy and use it to refine the existing sponsorship strategy.
![[photo - James A. Phills]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/phills-james-a_3.jpg "[photo - James A. Phills]")
By the close of 2001, theatres in Seattle were experiencing box office slumps. The vibrant theatre industry faced monumental challenges to remaining both critically acclaimed and financially sound.
![[photo - James A. Phills]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/phills-james-a.jpg "[photo - James A. Phills]")
The directors of the American Repertory Theatre face major government cuts in funding. How can they best identify new sources of income?
![[photo - William F. Meehan III]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/meehan-william-f_6.jpg "[photo - William F. Meehan III]")
From 1999 to 2003, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival completed a huge capital campaign. The case gives an in-depth examination of the organization’s planning process for this campaign.
![[photo - William F. Meehan III]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/meehan-william-f_13.jpg "[photo - William F. Meehan III]")
By the end of 1993, the San Francisco Symphony faced a shift in its financial fortunes, with forecasts predicting annual budget shortfalls. The executive committee must develop a strategy for the symphony that balances its financial needs and its artistic commitments and aspirations.
Bay Area Video Coalition, a nonprofit media services organization, has behaved like a high-tech business. Now it faces unique challenges and opportunities that are common to both nonprofit and for-profit businesses.
The executive director of a teen arts and entrepreneurship training program in Boston, Artists for Humanity, weighs issues of expansion, staff turnover, and fundraising. The organization’s challenges reflect those facing many small nonprofits, particularly those with an entrepreneurial arm.
Circus Oz, Australia’s premier, international circus, was exploring offering the new development officer position a higher-than-normal salary. The case and its companion videocase cover the organization’s dilemmas around this, and the situation’s resolution.
Innermotion dance company presents performances based on themes related to incest and childhood sexual abuse. This video explores how the founder must reexamine her focus and priorities when faced with the loss of a major grant.
Visa’s executive vice president of international marketing, partnerships, and sponsorship played a key role in convincing Visa’s six regional boards and its international board to allow Visa to extend its Olympics and Paralympics sponsorship. His team planned to discuss the current corporate strategy and use it to refine the existing sponsorship strategy.
By the close of 2001, theatres in Seattle were experiencing box office slumps. The vibrant theatre industry faced monumental challenges to remaining both critically acclaimed and financially sound.
The directors of the American Repertory Theatre face major government cuts in funding. How can they best identify new sources of income?
From 1999 to 2003, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival completed a huge capital campaign. The case gives an in-depth examination of the organization’s planning process for this campaign.
By the end of 1993, the San Francisco Symphony faced a shift in its financial fortunes, with forecasts predicting annual budget shortfalls. The executive committee must develop a strategy for the symphony that balances its financial needs and its artistic commitments and aspirations.
Bay Area Video Coalition, a nonprofit media services organization, has behaved like a high-tech business. Now it faces unique challenges and opportunities that are common to both nonprofit and for-profit businesses.
The executive director of a teen arts and entrepreneurship training program in Boston, Artists for Humanity, weighs issues of expansion, staff turnover, and fundraising. The organization’s challenges reflect those facing many small nonprofits, particularly those with an entrepreneurial arm.
Crew members on an offshore oil rig toned down their bluster and macho behavior as an unexpected side effect of an initiative to cut down on-the-job injuries. The case study, coauthored by Debra Meyerson of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, could present a model for minimizing the effects of gender in other work settings.
What happens when restaurants are required to post calorie counts alongside food and beverage offerings? Average calories per transaction falls by 6 percent, researchers find.
Vanessa Bohns and Francis Flynn demonstrate that people in a position to provide help tend to underestimate the role that embarrassment plays in decisions about whether or not to ask for help. As a result, potential helpers overestimate the likelihood that people will ask for help and misjudge the most effective means of encouraging help-seeking behavior.
“Ask and you shall receive” is the moral of this research. A series of studies reveals that people tend to grossly underestimate how likely others are to agree to requests for assistance. In a variety of different studies the results were generally the same. When the participants asked for help in a straight-forward manner they generally got the help they needed whether it was for directions, money or time.
![[photo - Dale Miller]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/miller-dale_2.jpg "[photo - Dale Miller]")
This study looks at different variations of deviation from group opinion, and who is more likely to express an opinion.
![[photo - Robert J. Flanagan]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/flanagan_0_0.jpg "[photo - Robert J. Flanagan]")
Most major symphony orchestras in the United States regularly spend more money than they take in, and some dip so far into endowments that they risk their long-term survival, according to a new report commissioned by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
![[photo - Benoit Monin]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/madjeule_0.png "[photo - Benoit Monin]")
This article documents the rejection of moral rebels through four separate studies.
![[photo - Robert J. Flanagan]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/flanagan-robert-j%5B1%5D.jpg "[photo - Robert J. Flanagan]")
This study collects facts about cyclical and trend-related economic developments in the symphony orchestra industry. It also examines influences on performance and nonperformance revenues and expenses of orchestras.
![[photo - Alexander Jordan]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/alex.jpg "[photo - Alexander Jordan]")
The authors show that moral judgments can be more deeply embedded in judges' immediate social contexts--and are driven more by motivations to maintain self-image--than is typically appreciated in contemporary moral psychology research.
![[photo - Hayagreeva Rao]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/rao-hayagreeva.jpg "[photo - Hayagreeva Rao]")
This article examines how the values espoused by social movements become entrenched in political culture and spawn many new kinds of institutions, which in turn shape organizations far from movements' original targets.
![[photo - Roderick Kramer]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/kramer-roderick-m_2.jpg "[photo - Roderick Kramer]")
This course examines the lives of individuals who have contributed greatly to society, either through business, politics, arts and entertainment, or other pursuits. We take a close look, for example, at the "paths to prominence" of individuals such as Steve Jobs, Condi Rice, George Lucas, John F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King.
Dave DeForest-Stalls wants to help kids stay out of gangs. He's providing mentorship and hip ways to keep youth on the straight and narrow.
Ruth Bolan is giving voice to indigenous peoples of the Pacific Island. She funds documentaries that bring their culture and challenges to millions of viewers.
![[photo - Peter Hero]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/social_innovator_picture/Peterhero.jpg "[photo - Peter Hero]")
Peter Hero has been helping philanthropists make a social impact for two decades. He's now inspiring students to get involved in social entrepreneurship.
How do we get individuals to practice healthier habits and influence positive behavior change? The "Behavior Wizard" offers technology-based solutions in this audio lecture.
You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
Crew members on an offshore oil rig toned down their bluster and macho behavior as an unexpected side effect of an initiative to cut down on-the-job injuries. The case study, coauthored by Debra Meyerson of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, could present a model for minimizing the effects of gender in other work settings.
What happens when restaurants are required to post calorie counts alongside food and beverage offerings? Average calories per transaction falls by 6 percent, researchers find.
One Acre Fund feeds the world’s poor by helping them feed themselves.
JOIN THE CLUB: How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World by Tina Rosenberg
AMERICAN GRACE: How Religion Divides and Unites Us by Robert D. Putnam & David E. Campbell
20UNDER40: Re-Inventing the Arts and Arts Education for the 21st Century Edited by Edward P. Clapp
Vanessa Bohns and Francis Flynn demonstrate that people in a position to provide help tend to underestimate the role that embarrassment plays in decisions about whether or not to ask for help. As a result, potential helpers overestimate the likelihood that people will ask for help and misjudge the most effective means of encouraging help-seeking behavior.
In Rwanda, Radio La Benevolencija uses soap operas to heal ethnic tensions
