Center for Social Innovation

Financial Leadership Required To Fight Symphony Orchestra ‘Cost Disease’

In a new book, economics Professor Robert Flanagan explains why symphony orchestras need multiple strategies to keep their finances from ballooning out of control.

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Arts, Culture, and Religion, Nonprofit Management, Social Entrepreneurship

One Acre at a Time

Stanford Social Innovation Review: Summer 2011

One Acre Fund feeds the world’s poor by helping them feed themselves.

Arts, Culture, and Religion, Government

Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article

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People Power

Stanford Social Innovation Review: Spring 2011

JOIN THE CLUB: How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World by Tina Rosenberg

Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article

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Arts, Culture, and Religion, Environment, Nonprofit Management

One Nation Under Gods

Stanford Social Innovation Review: Spring 2011

AMERICAN GRACE: How Religion Divides and Unites Us by Robert D. Putnam & David E. Campbell

Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article

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How Do You Encourage Recycling?

Recycling programs abound, but people are often lackadaisical about putting plastic, paper, glass, and metal into those bins. How can we get more people to recycle? An intervention recently conducted in Canada is pointing the way, and the message is all about ... well, the messaging.

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Financial Leadership Required To Fight Symphony Orchestra ‘Cost Disease’

In a new book, economics Professor Robert Flanagan explains why symphony orchestras need multiple strategies to keep their finances from ballooning out of control.

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Michael Harrison Named 2009 Davis Award Recipient

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.

Resource: News Article

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Arts, Culture, and Religion, Philanthropy, Responsible Investing

The Madoff Philanthropic Implosion

Stanford Social Innovation Review: Fall 2009

How a Jewish charity is responding to one of the biggest scams in history.

Arts, Culture, and Religion, Human Rights

Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article

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Research: Why They Stayed

Stanford Social Innovation Review: Fall 2009

“The question everyone asked was, ‘Why did those crazy people choose to stay?’"

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Rethinking Human Nature

Stanford Social Innovation Review: Fall 2009

The conventional view of human nature is that self-interest is our strongest instinct.

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What's Next: White House Digs Innovation

Stanford Social Innovation Review: Summer 2009

Social Innovation now has a place in the White House.

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Research: The Violent Death of Benevolence

Stanford Social Innovation Review: Summer 2009

Research supports violent media’s negative impact on civility.

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Creating the Safe Space to Talk About Race in the Nonprofit Sector

Just because we now have a Black President does not mean we should take the topic of diversity off of our agenda.

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Swarms

Group-think extends to swarms of social activism.

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Straws and Nets

The author poses the question whether or not there really is a difference between religious organizations taking x percent of a donation for their church and a nonprofit taking money out for operating costs.

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Why I Wish Nonprofits Would Stop Using the Word ‘Minorities’

“We’ve got to stop using the word ‘minorities’ to describe the communities we serve. It doesn’t have any value. It never has."- the author

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Arts, Culture, and Religion, Government

Combating Anxiety with Action

Heed President Obama’s call to service and take action.

Resource: Blog Post

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Arts, Culture, and Religion, Education

The Next Generation of Digital Craftsman

As "chief architect" of PixelCorps, Alex Lindsay created a guild for the next generation of craftsmen: digital craftsmen. In this audio interview, Lindsay describes to Globeshakers host Tim Zak how PixelCorps is currently transferring skills in digital imaging and animation to regions in the developing world so that their workforces can capitalize on the coming media revolution.

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Arts, Culture, and Religion, Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic Development, Social Entrepreneurship

Playtime!

Play affects children's quality of life. Yet, in many communities, schools, and families, this element has been pushed to the back burner. In an audio interview with Globeshakers host Tim Zak, Darrell Hammond envisions a great place to play within walking distance of every child in America. Since 1995, KaBOOM! has used its innovative community-build model to bring together business and community interests to construct more than 850 new playgrounds and skateparks, and renovate 1,300 others nationwide.

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Arts, Culture, and Religion, Economic Development

What Does the Future Hold?

Futurist, design strategist, and author Andrew Zolli specializes in helping people and institutions see, understand, and act upon complex change. In this audio interview with Globeshakers host Tim Zak, Zolli discusses some of the grand challenges facing the globe, as well as emerging technologies that may address them.

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Arts, Culture, and Religion, Human Rights, Leadership

Cory Booker's 2012 Commencement Address

Cory Booker, the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, challenges Stanford graduates to be courageous, never lose faith and always work together during Stanford's 121st Commencement. He extolls lessons from his own father and grandfather through stories of hardship, hope, and humor. Booker encourages graduates to find and join their own "conspiracy of love" -- people who will help lift them up in times of need, provide a community and challenge them to go beyond what they think is possible.

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Arts, Culture, and Religion, Environment, Nonprofit Management

The Effectiveness of Message Framing to Influence Behavior

Most observers agree that human consumption is on a crash course with the environment. Although recycling programs have been implemented in many cities around the world, people often do not participate as often as they could. This research examines the effectiveness of messages that highlight the negative consequences of not recycling (loss frames) versus those that emphasize the positive consequences of recycling (gain frames) in influencing people's behavior.

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Arts, Culture, and Religion, Health Care, Nonprofit Management

Using People's Irrationality To Do Good

Identifying effective obesity treatment is both a clinical challenge and a public health priority. Can monetary incentives stimulate weight loss? Leslie John presents a study that examines different economic incentives for weight loss during a 16 week intervention.

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Arts, Culture, and Religion, Economic Development

Urban Villages: Art as Social Innovation

Rick Lowe has given new meaning to the phrase "artist-in-residence." This Heinz Award winner and former Loeb fellow at the Harvard School of Design is the founder of Project Row Houses, an organization that merges art and architecture with social activism. In an audio interview with Globeshakers host Tim Zak, Lowe describes how this experiment in "social sculpture" is redefining the role of art and artists in society.

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Arts, Culture, and Religion, Education

The Future of Jazz

As executive producer of MCG Jazz, Marty Ashby works with musicians who often devote their proceeds to a community arts and vocational training center in Pittsburg, Penn. In this audio interview, Ashby charts for Globeshakers host Tim Zak his career from jazz musician to director of this philanthropic jazz performance and recording venue.

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Arts, Culture, and Religion, Economic Development

Globeshakers

On Pittsburgh's gritty north side, just down the street from where he grew up, Bill Strickland has created a youth development and adult training center like no other. In this audio interview with Globeshakers host Tim Zak, Strickland talks about the environment he has melded over more than 40 years surrounded by stunning art, the sounds of jazz, beautiful orchids, and brilliant architecture, with programs that get kids into college and adults a job with a future.

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Arts, Culture, and Religion, Education

The Next Generation of Digital Craftsman

As "chief architect" of PixelCorps, Alex Lindsay created a guild for the next generation of craftsmen: digital craftsmen. In this audio interview, Lindsay describes to Globeshakers host Tim Zak how PixelCorps is currently transferring skills in digital imaging and animation to regions in the developing world so that their workforces can capitalize on the coming media revolution.

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Arts, Culture, and Religion, Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic Development, Social Entrepreneurship

Playtime!

Play affects children's quality of life. Yet, in many communities, schools, and families, this element has been pushed to the back burner. In an audio interview with Globeshakers host Tim Zak, Darrell Hammond envisions a great place to play within walking distance of every child in America. Since 1995, KaBOOM! has used its innovative community-build model to bring together business and community interests to construct more than 850 new playgrounds and skateparks, and renovate 1,300 others nationwide.

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Circus Oz

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.

Resource: Academic Case

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Arts, Culture, and Religion, Corporate Social Responsibility, Philanthropy, Responsible Investing

Innermotion on the Move

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.

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Visa Sponsorship Marketing

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.

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The Seattle Theater Industry

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.

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American Repertory Theatre in the 1990s

The directors of the American Repertory Theatre face major government cuts in funding. How can they best identify new sources of income?

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The Oregon Shakespeare Festival

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.

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The San Francisco Symphony

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.

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Bay Area Video Coalition

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.

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Artists for Humanity

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.

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Circus Oz

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.

Resource: Academic Case

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Arts, Culture, and Religion, Corporate Social Responsibility, Philanthropy, Responsible Investing

Innermotion on the Move

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.

Resource: Academic Case

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Visa Sponsorship Marketing

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.

Resource: Academic Case

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The Seattle Theater Industry

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.

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American Repertory Theatre in the 1990s

The directors of the American Repertory Theatre face major government cuts in funding. How can they best identify new sources of income?

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From Sucker to Saint: Moralization in Response to Self-Threat

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.

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The Winds of Change: The Progressive Movement and the Bureaucratization of Thrift

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.

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Growing Church Organizations in Diverse U.S. Communities 1890-1906

The authors examine the classic question of how religious diversity in a community affects church membership in a period of high growth and social change.

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Lives of Consequence: How Individuals Discover Paths to Meaningful Engagement: OB 383

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.

Resource: MBA Course

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Arts, Culture, and Religion, Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic Development, Education, Human Rights, Social Entrepreneurship

An interview with Dave DeForest-Stalls (EPNL '07)

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.

Resource: CSI Affiliates

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Arts, Culture, and Religion, Philanthropy & Responsible Investing, Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic Development, Education, Environment, Government, Healthcare, Nonprofit Management, Social Entrepreneurship

An interview with Ruth Bolan (EPNL '06)

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.

Resource: CSI Affiliates

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Arts, Culture, and Religion, Economic Development, Education, Healthcare, Nonprofit Management, Philanthropy, Responsible Investing, Social Entrepreneurship

An interview with Peter Hero (MBA '66)

Peter Hero has been helping philanthropists make a social impact for two decades. He's now inspiring students to get involved in social entrepreneurship.

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Stanford Psychologists Examine How Race Affects Juvenile Sentencing

As the Supreme Court considers whether to further limit sentences given to juveniles, new research by Stanford psychologists shows how an offender's race shifts people's support for severe punishment.

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