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Impact Without Imposition: What Role for Northern Academics in the Global South?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Georg von Richthofen & Ali Aslan Gümüsay This year, our institute published several studies as part of the research project Sustainability, Entrepreneurship, and Global Digital Transformation (SET) based on activities in seven countries in the Global South. In Benin, for example, we focused on sustainable entrepreneurship.

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Can Nonprofits Escape Corporate Capture?

NonProfit Quarterly

I just think that we have to be ready not to say something is negative or positive, but definitely evaluate: Why is this unique in American society at this time? AS: One other point I want to raise with that, Steve, I think you said earlier that nonprofit is too limited a term to encompass, in your words, civil society and social justice.

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From Margin to Mainstream: Social Innovation for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Were in a period of polycrisis, yet the business world, government, and civil society persist in their siloed approaches to solving it. Now more than ever, we need to borrow from the energy, optimism, courage, and interconnectedness that characterize the social innovation ecosystem.