Stanford Social Innovation Review Vol 6 Nãƒâºm 2 Abril 2008
Issue
Summertime 2008
In two articles nigh microfinance, the summer 2008 event of Stanford Social Innovation Review covers how microfinance providers are funding the poverty-stricken while too creating revenue for investors, and envisioning a future where high volumes and not loftier margins provide a solid bottom line. This outcome's comprehend story, "Achieving Breakthrough Performance," is devoted to the four simple but effective principles used by outstanding managers as they take their organizations into the rarefied realm of quantum performance and lasting change.
Features
Social Innovations
Microloan Sharks
Commercial microfinance institutions (MFIs) must calculate 2 bottom lines: alleviating poverty for clients and also generating profits for investors. To achieve the latter goal, some MFIs accuse their impoverished clients exorbitant interest rates. The recent Banco Compartamos IPO in Mexico raises a carmine flag, demonstrating how easily well-intentioned MFIs and their investors tin shift from microlending to microloan-sharking.
Social Innovations
The Equity Uppercase Gap
For-profit businesses can efficiently and quickly heighten big amounts of money to fund growth and innovation by tapping equity capital—money that people invest in a company in render for ownership and a share of profits. The nonprofit earth has no corollary, making it hard, plush, and time-consuming to raise coin. In this commodity the author explores ways that nonprofits and funders tin can create their own version of equity capital, and, just every bit important, develop an equity arroyo to doing business concern.
Social Innovations
Reimagining Microfinance
Critics of microfinance institutions (MFIs) ask them to choose between helping the poor or making money for investors, but this is a false option. MFIs tin have their impact and turn a profit, likewise, says the writer, the CEO of the Grameen Foundation. He sketches a new vision of microfinance as a platform, not a product; one that relies on loftier volumes, not high margins, and that uses limits on private do good, holistic performance standards, and third-party certification to help MFIs meet both their bottom lines.
Nonprofits
Achieving Breakthrough Functioning
From the Girl Scouts, to Partners In Wellness, to the city of Providence, R.I., neat organizations take 1 matter in common: smashing managers. These managers, in turn, share four unproblematic management principles that they employ to guide organizations from mere mediocrity to stand-out distinction.
Field Study
Health
Tackling HIV
Grassroot Soccer uses the globe's most popular sport to educate kids in sub-Saharan Africa almost HIV and its prevention.
Nonprofits
She'southward Crafty
World of Good connects female artisans in poor countries with retailers (including Whole Foods Marketplace, pictured) in the West.
Environs
From the Ground Upwards
Part academic institution, part activist group, part think tank, ATREE crosses sectors to breed a new species of conservation agency in India.
Nonprofits
Books to Grow On
How did Room to Read create more 5,000 libraries in less than eight years? The media have largely focused on founder John Forest as the catalytic figure in the arrangement'southward success story. Of equal importance, even so, is Room to Read'due south solid and replicable operational choices.
Case Report
Social Innovations
Taking Stock of Venture Philanthropy
In the early on, heady days of the venture philanthropy movement, its proponents touted it every bit revolutionary, while critics said it was merely old wine in new bottles. The experiences of the Center for Venture Philanthropy show that the truth lies somewhere in betwixt: Venture philanthropy is no miracle cure, even so it can exist particularly expert at edifice potent organizations, knitting together new networks, and shrinking the power gap between funders and grantees.
Viewpoint
Social Innovations
Less Is More
Financial aid discourages innovative solutions to poverty.
Fundraising
We've Arrived. Now What?
Although the donor-brash fund industry is in a loftier-growth phase, all boats will rise if we worry less most competing with each other and instead detect ways to work together. By Kim Wright-Violich, president of Schwab Charitable.
Business
C-Level Diversity
How to get more racial minorities into corner offices.
Food
Fast Food and the Family Subcontract
Information technology'south time to reform how nosotros grow food and what we have for dinner, says Bruce Boyd, main and managing director at Arabella Philanthropic Investment Advisors.
Research
Enquiry
The Price of Going Left
In new democracies, correct-leaning elections attract foreign investors.
Nonprofits
The Toughest Task You'll Never Get
Would-be EDs cite inadequate mentoring, low pay, and poor lifestyle as career obstacles.
Global Bug
Don't Salvage; Exist Saved
Conservative Protestants are poorer partly because of their religion.
Socially Responsible Business organization
Smoke and Mirrors
British American Tobacco Malaysia has won the favor of the Malaysian regime and people by making donations to cultural institutions, funding scholarships, and developing youth smoking prevention programs. But tin a tobacco company ever be socially responsible?
Authorities
Government Cares the Most
Public nursing homes outshine nonprofits and for-profits.
Philanthropy
Where Nice Is Naughty
In most parts of the world, strangers helping strangers is strange.
Energy
A Lot of Hot Air
A popular Mexico City program for cutting air pollution from vehicles doesn't piece of work; in fact sales of new cars, used cars, and gasoline have climbed since the program's launch in 1989.
Book Reviews
Nonprofits
Review: Out of Poverty
Polak offers entrepreneurial solutions to poverty in Asia and Africa.
Social Innovations
Review: Creating a World Without Poverty
Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohammad Yunus aims for a more just society for all.
Q&A
Government
15 Minutes with Martin Eakes
Managing Editor Eric Nee spoke with Self-Aid's founder and CEO, Martin Eakes, about the subprime loan crunch and its affect on the poor.
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