Social Innovation Conversations

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Social Innovation Conversations
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Descripción del podcast de Social Innovation Conversations: Social Innovation Conversations brings your the voices of the people at the forefront of creating social change in the world. Hear their experience in social entrepreneurship, environmental sustainabi... lity, philanthropy, corporate social responsibility, responsible investing, and more. The channel hosts interviews, panels, and high-level speeches from world-class speakers such as Al Gore, Amory Lovins, Paul Farmer, Jed Emerson, and Alice Tepper Marlin. Social Innovation Conversations is part of the Conversations Network, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit podcast network.

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Jeff Mason - Improving Social Investment Effectiveness logo de Social Innovation Conversations
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36:22 min | hace 2 años
How do we know that the nonprofit organizations we support are actually effective? Host Sheela Sethuraman interviews Jeff Mason ab out his efforts, along with key organizational leaders, to develop an assessment tool to evaluate the performance of nonprofits.
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Online Giving Marketplaces - Online Giving Markets 101 logo de Social Innovation Conversations
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01:02:52 min | hace 2 años
Online giving marketplaces allow for the transfer of funds from interested donors and lenders to those who need them. In this new space, it is as yet, unclear whether the donor is the "supply" or the "demand," and organizations are just beginning to experiment with the utility of such online functioning. In this talk, sponsored by the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, experts working in online marketplaces discuss how their organizations function and what differentiates them from others.
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Sonal Shah, Michele Jolin, and Greg Nelson - Social Innovation... logo de Social Innovation Conversations
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44:16 min | hace 2 años
President Obama has sent a powerful message to the American public since taking office: Social innovation can play an important ro le in rebuilding a stronger country. With the passage of stimulus packages in areas such as clean energy, national service, and climate change, it's clear that the White House is approaching national challenges in new ways. In this panel, hosted by Full Circle Fund and sponsored by the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, key staff in the Obama administration provide the broad outlines for these exciting changes.
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William F. Meehan III - Making Markets Work logo de Social Innovation Conversations
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39:01 min | hace 2 años
When it comes to online giving market places, the adage is: If you build it, few will come. So how do you drive enough people to s uch online spaces to make them work? In this talk, sponsored by the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, William Meehan, McKinsey senior director, talks about the opportunities and challenges in making online marketplaces successful, and what lies ahead in this area for organizations dedicated to making a genuine sustained impact in communities.
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Premal Shah - A Wild Ride: Creating a New Marketplace logo de Social Innovation Conversations
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32:36 min | hace 2 años
Kiva has created an online marketplace that allows ordinary citizens to help specific entrepreneurs around the world thrive with a s little as $25. How did Kiva get the critical mass it needed to make its operations a go? How does it work with nonprofits, entrepreneurs, and lenders through the online format? In this talk, sponsored by the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, Kiva President Premal Shah talks about how the organization got started, how it functions, and how it plans to grow.
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Jacqueline Novogratz - Patient Capital and the Solution to Pov... logo de Social Innovation Conversations
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33:12 min | hace 2 años
Neither markets nor charity alone are sufficient to help the world's poorest people. In this interview with host Sheela Sethu raman, Jacqueline Novogratz, founder of the Acumen Fund, describes how a combination of patient capital plus management support is making a difference in tackling poverty in Africa and Asia. Novogratz shares experiences and anecdotes from her recently published book, "The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World."
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Randy Komisar - One Venture Capitalist's Perspective logo de Social Innovation Conversations
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44:28 min | hace 2 años
How do we create an efficient capital market for philanthropy? What are the best ways to marry program evaluation with powerful dy namics among online giving places? What role should public policy take in all this? In this free-ranging talk, sponsored by the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, Randy Komisar offers a venture capitalist's perspective on these questions and more.
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Challenges and Opportunities of Nationality - Cross-National C... logo de Social Innovation Conversations
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53:37 min | hace 2 años
This panel explores how social innovation can both mitigate the pernicious consequences of the xenophobia and insularity inherent in many stereotypes of nationalism, and enhance the positive opportunities for social change within established heritage and cultural traditions. Issues ranging from multiculturalism within countries to cross-national and international cultural challenges and opportunities are brought up in the discussion.
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Rob Reich - Tax Incentives and the Nonprofit Sector logo de Social Innovation Conversations
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57:49 min | hace 2 años
Given current tax laws, $300 billion in charitable dollars can end up costing the U.S. Treasury $50 billion in lost income. Should taxable income exclude charitable contributions? In this talk, sponsored by the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, Stanford political philosopher Rob Reich asks some tough questions, ultimately proposing a new way of looking at tax incentives to support the nonprofit sector.
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Mark Kramer - Moving from Insight to Action logo de Social Innovation Conversations
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01:04:48 min | hace 3 años
At its worst, program evaluation is a useless activity that generates lots of boring data and irrelevant conclusions. But at its b est, argues Mark Kramer in a talk he gave at the 2008 Nonprofit Management Institute, it can be a strategic tool for the genuine improvement of a nonprofit. He offers exemplars of organizations that have used evaluation effectively to advance their missions.
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John Podesta - Cities Respond to Climate Change logo de Social Innovation Conversations
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48:26 min | hace 3 años
To reduce or even stop the threat of global warming, it stands to reason that the first line of defense is to avoid using fossil f uels in the first place. In this overview followed by questions from the audience, John Podesta suggests that this can be done by focusing on greater energy efficiency--both at small and large levels--from everyday items to international policy.
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Laurie Marker - Sustainable Resource Management Through Econom... logo de Social Innovation Conversations
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30:11 min | hace 3 años
Despite being the fastest land animal, cheetahs can't run from the threat of habitat loss. Laurie Marker of the Cheetah Conse rvation Fund has used a multi-pronged effort including habitat restoration, resource management education, and job creation to address that threat. In this interview by Sheela Sethuraman for the Tech Museum Awards, Marker describes the creative measures she has taken to save cheetahs and improve the lives of the people who live near them.
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Neal Denton - Private Sector Role in Disaster Response logo de Social Innovation Conversations
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16:33 min | hace 3 años
The Business Roundtable announced an official collaboration between its Partnership for Disaster Response and the American Red Cro ss in September, 2007. Neal Denton, Senior VP of Government Relations and Strategic Partnerships at the American Red Cross discusses the value of this relationship to the Red Cross, the role of the private sector in disaster response, and plans for strengthening this relationship.
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Miguel Dabdoub, Ford Runge, Robert Berendes, Vinod Khosla - Wi... logo de Social Innovation Conversations
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01:06:51 min | hace 3 años
On the one hand, biofuels offer a green substitute against petrol-based fuels such as gasoline. On the other, they are still expen sive to produce and are causing a steep inflation in food prices the world over. A panel of experts debates the root causes of the increase in food prices, and the need to produce biofuels vis-a-vis the measures to tackle the economic and political side effects of its production.
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Jeff Patrick - Social Networking for Nonprofits logo de Social Innovation Conversations
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01:06:38 min | hace 3 años
MySpace, Flicker, YouTube, and Facebook are big brands and major movers in the commercial, social networking world. In this 2008 N onprofit Management Institute talk, an event convened by the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Jeff Patrick of Common Knowledge shares how nonprofits can use such tools--and customize their own--to capture constituencies and raise funds. He further shows where social networking is headed so that nonprofits can begin to incorporate it into their long-term horizons.
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Jennifer Aaker - The Psychology of Giving logo de Social Innovation Conversations
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01:01:01 min | hace 3 años
Research shows that spending time and money on others makes people happy--so why don't more people donate to or volunteer for nonprofits? In this talk, sponsored by the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, Stanford marketing professor Jennifer Aaker offers insights into the phenomenon. She then turns those insights into lessons nonprofits can use to create compelling ways for more people to give financially and personally to the causes they care about.
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Diana McLain Smith - How Great Teams Turn Conflict into Strength logo de Social Innovation Conversations
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01:09:42 min | hace 3 años
The key to success in any team or enterprise is to develop good working relationships. In this talk, sponsored by the Stanford Cen ter for Social Innovation, consultant Diana McLain Smith, author of Divide and Conquer: How Great Teams Turn Conflict into Strength, shows how those who care about performance and relationships can simultaneously nurture both. She offers tips for seeing work relationships in new ways, and practical suggestions for enhancing them.
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Hau Lee - Boosting Profits Through Social Responsibility logo de Social Innovation Conversations
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41:52 min | hace 3 años
Companies can indeed make money while operating in socially responsible and environmentally friendly ways. It just takes what supp ly chain expert Hau Lee calls the Triple-A approach--having agility, adaptability, and alignment. Closing the Stanford 2008 Responsible Supply Chains Conference, Lee describes how small to mid-sized companies in China, India, and Israel boosted profits while shrinking waste and pollution and providing a fair workplace for employees.
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Randy Wang - Spreading Education Thru Community Participation logo de Social Innovation Conversations
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35:38 min | hace 3 años
Imagine your confusion if you had to design a system to improve the quality of education in distant underprivileged schools. What if you stepped away from the problem and asked, "What is the simplest 'system' that could work in the real world?" In host Sheela Sethuraman's interview, Randy Wang describes his motivation to create Digital StudyHall, a collection of mundane technologies that have dramatically improved long distance education. His progress and goals are also discussed.
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Jacqueline Novogratz, Helene Gayle, Robert Hormats - Strategie... logo de Social Innovation Conversations
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01:13:56 min | hace 3 años
A food crisis is upon us. Prices of food commodities have risen dramatically. Shrinking supply, due to weather and the production of biofuels, combined with spiking petroleum prices, has lead to rising demand and instability in countries the world over. Robert Hormats, Helene Gayle, and Jacqueline Novogratz discuss the roles that the financial sector, NGOs, and small farmers around the world play as well as what they can, and must do, to reverse this alarming situation.
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