Stanford Social Innovation Review

🚨 SSIR’s new Summer ’24 Issue is online now! 👉 https://lnkd.in/e6P2NEGY 💡Mark Kramer and Steve Phillips take a critical look at strategic philanthropy and what comes next in the cover story “Where Strategic Philanthropy Went Wrong” 💡Kathleen Kelly Janus writes about how the administration of California Gov. Gavin Newsom partnered with philanthropies, nonprofits, and businesses to develop and scale solutions to social problems in “Effective Government Demands Parntership” 💡Geneva Vest, Cary Simmons, and Howard Frumkin of Trust for Public Land share how the organization strengthened community power through park renovations in “Revitalize Parks to Strengthen Democracy” 💡Christopher Marquis examines how regeneration is replacing sustainability as a business model to address climate change in “How Regeneration Is Redefining Business” And don’t miss a case study on The Jed Foundation (JED) and how it’s addressing the youth mental health crisis; viewpoint articles on volunteerism’s diversity problem and the longer-term impact of fixed-life foundations; profiles of a social enterprise in New Zealand offering job training during incarceration and a disability-justice nonprofit in the US South focused on voting access; and much, much more! 💻 Read the full issue: https://lnkd.in/e6P2NEGY 🔔 Subscribe now (if you don’t already) for complete online access: https://lnkd.in/eTRxhPWe ✍ Sign up for our e-newsletter for updates on the new issue, new online stories, and more: https://lnkd.in/gYk49K9z 📖 Pick up a copy of the print issue at a bookstore or newsstand near you! #philanthropy #collaboration #empowerment #democracy #business

Master the challenges of collective impact with this SSIR Academy program facilitated and led by Jane Wei-Skillern, a senior fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business, and Paul Schmitz, senior advisor of Collective Impact Forum and CEO of Leading Inside Out, LLC. Explore ways leaders can better manage critical situations, effectively engage with partners and beneficiaries, and employ the principles of collective impact. Register now: https://lnkd.in/erwUaPXF

How are nonprofits using AI for impact? A new in-depth series sponsored by Fast Forward kicks off with an analysis of 100 use cases from Kevin Barenblat of Fast Forward and Brigitte Hoyer Gosselink of Google (Google.org). Understanding how nonprofits are leveraging AI will help other social entrepreneurs and funders see—and get inspired by—the vast possibilities in applying AI for social good. “Technological advancement has historically overlooked the needs of the most vulnerable. Nonprofits and civil society belong at the forefront of AI. By bolstering communities’ agency to decide when and how to use it, the transformation can happen with them, not to them.” Learn more about what’s happening in the emerging AI-powered nonprofit space: https://lnkd.in/ebHVuhDy Sign up for notifications about new articles in the series: https://lnkd.in/eabY76Tz #nonprofits #artificialintelligence #socialentrepreneurs

A project like Drone Didi “serves a higher purpose of democratizing technology and cuts through gender biases by enabling women to venture beyond their homes for educational and employment opportunities,” says Somjit Amrit, CEO of iHub, a technology innovation center at the Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi. In SSIR’s summer issue, journalist Neha Bhatt reports on how The NAMO Drone Didi project gives women the skills to increase their financial security and modernize farming. #government #India #women #gender

Housing conversion has become an increasingly popular approach to the housing shortage in Paris, garnering support from public housing companies and local politicians alike, including Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo. Since the L'Institut Paris Region began registering conversion projects in 2013, every year empty nonresidential buildings are turned into a quarter of the city’s new housing units. Now a decade in, the once emerging trend has become a revolution. “We’re living in a sort of golden age of social housing,” says Stephanie JANKEL, an urbanist at Apur - Atelier parisien d'urbanisme, a nonprofit Parisian urban-planning workshop. Chloé Rouveyrolles-Bazire reports on the building conversion process and how Paris will apply it to new buildings constructed for the 2024 Summer Olympics. #housing #olympics #homes

The cover story in SSIR’s summer issue, “Where Strategic Philanthropy Went Wrong” by Mark Kramer and Steve Phillips, has generated lively discussion across the philanthropic sector, including right here on LinkedIn. Jodi Nelson, Ph.D. and Fay Twersky of the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation respond with a defense of strategic philanthropy and explain that how Kramer and Phillips describe the practice is unrecognizable to them. #philanthropy #impact

“If we prioritize the longevity of foundations, we may fail to solve the problems they were created to address in the first place.” Although most private foundations are designed to last forever, many philanthropists and impact investors are beginning to question this model. The prevailing approach has foundations operating in perpetuity, granting only 5% of funds annually, and continuing to amass wealth to be deployed in the future. But this strategy may miss the mark by focusing on financial indicators rather than social impact. One exception to the norm is Linked Foundation. Since its formation in 2006, Linked planned for a fixed 20-year time frame to achieve its mission of improving the health and economic self-reliance of underserved women in Latin America and the United States. Anna York De La Cruz, chief impact officer at Linked Foundation, and David Lehr, professor at the University of North Carolina and Santa Clara University, delve into the foundation’s strategy of leveraging investments to catalyze larger movements and share lessons for emerging catalytic philanthropists. #philanthropy #foundations #impactinvesting

Stanford Social Innovation Review is pleased to announce that Cynthia Bissett Germanotta, president of Born This Way Foundation, will be joining us for this year’s Nonprofit Management Institute, “What's Next for the Social Sector? Strategies and Tactics for Today's Agile Leaders,” September 17-18, 2024. Learn how the foundation, which she co-founded with her daughter Lady Gaga, works to meet the emerging, diverse needs of young people to support their whole well-being. Register now: https://bit.ly/NMI_24

“The definition of what productive work is and how work culture can be successfully fostered needs to be radically revised. No, it isn’t the end of the water cooler, and no, it isn’t the end of growth, and no, it isn’t even the end of the office. But it’s the beginning of a new time in which place, identity, culture, purpose, well-being, and productivity occur against a new set of working conditions.” Read an excerpt from “Working Assumptions” by Julia Hobsbawm and learn how leaders can begin to rethink a common one-size-fits-all approach to managing workforces. Learn how to read the room on workforce flexibility ➡ https://lnkd.in/evMnvSav

Call for submissions! 📣 🚨 📣 🚨 📣 SSIR is always looking for new contributors and story ideas and would particularly like to invite stories from people or groups doing innovative or inspiring work related to elections happening around the world in 2024. 🗳 Topics might include research or initiatives focused on voter engagement or polarization, analysis of the implications of elections on the social sector, or commentary related to top ballot issues or direct democracy. Check out our submission guidelines and be in touch with your ideas >> https://lnkd.in/erVFDPK3