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Reimagining the Role of Business in Protecting Biodiversity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

To combat this crisis, governments and international bodies have turned to diverse policy frameworks for biodiversity preservation at national, regional, and global levels. These policies hold a clear expectation for global corporations to engage in and promote biodiversity conservation and restoration.

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Lessons From the Failures of Covax

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Trevor Zimmer In May, the COVID-19 national public health emergency officially ended. As the world emerges from this period of death, economic displacement, and social reordering, it will take years to fully understand how the pandemic impacted households, communities, and countries.

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Segregation Helped Build Fortunes. What Does Philanthropy Owe Now?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The conversations remain small and overdue, but recent momentum is notable with new organizations , publications, resources, and frameworks exploring how philanthropy can—and, in the eyes of many, should—engage the movement for reparations in the United States. That remains true even if that wealth was donated to promote a public good.

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Of Myths and Markets: Moving Beyond the Capitalist God That Failed Us

NonProfit Quarterly

It’s about shrinking the state—or its social programs, at least rhetorically. These policies have real-world effects. They argue that the country faces a crisis in capitalism, one that politics rooted in more generous social programs and greater market regulation could correct. But what is meant by neoliberalism?

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What’s Essential? Author, CEO, Founder on What Leaders Need To Do Now

Fundraising Leadership

The report continues, AI could reinforce the dominance of wealthier nations in high-value sectors like finance, pharmaceuticals, advance manufacturing, and defense. Read more in Take The Lead on leading with AI According to the Center for Global Development, In 2023, the United States alone secured $67.2

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Combining AI Breakthroughs and Better Policy to Defeat Superbugs

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Forestalling this future demands an aggressive effort to invent, manufacture, and distribute new and better antibiotics. By vastly accelerating the antibiotic discovery process, generative AI—together with sound public policy—could play a part in solving the life-and-death struggle against AMR. But it’s still early days.

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Corporate Power That Benefits All of Us

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Libraries, universities, cultural centers, public parks and outdoor spaces, and other institutions that helped shape the nation and powered the rise of a thriving white middle class in the mid-20th century were not created by the market or a single sector. Moreover, the public wants meaningful and lasting change. But they never have.