Must reads (articles & books)
Must reads…
Articles & Reports to check out…[shorter reads]
- Rediscovering social innovation, Stanford Social Innovation Review (Phills, Deiglmeier & Miller, 2008).
- The process of social innovation (Mulgan, 2006).
- Accelerating our impact: Philanthropy, innovation and social change (Pearson, 2007).
- The social innovation dynamic (Westley, 2008).
- Social innovation: What it is, why it matters and how it can be accelerated (Mulgan, Tucker, Ali & Sanders, 2007).
- In and out of sync: The challenges of growing social innovations (Mulgan, Ali, Halkett & Sanders, 2007).
- Social innovation: An exploration of the literature (Nilsson, 2003).
- From spare change to real change: The social sector as a beta site for business innovation (Kanter, 1999).
Books to check out…[longer reads!]
- Getting to maybe: How the world is changed (Westley, Zimmerman & Patton, 2006).
- From the ground up: Grassroots organizations making social change (Chetkovich & Kunreuther, 2006).
- Forces for good: The six practices of high-impact nonprofits (Crutchfield & Grant, 2008).
- How to change the world (Bornstein, 2007).
- The search for social entrepreneurship (Light, 2008).
- The blue sweater: Bridging the gap between rich and poor in an interconnected world (Novogratz, 2009).
- Entrepreneurship in the social sector (Wei-Skillern, Austin, Leonard & Stevenson, 2007).
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