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- Nonprofit Board Governance Research Project
- Pathways to Social Impact: Strategies for Expansion, Replication, and Dissemination in the Social Sector
- Effects of Out-of-School Learning Sites for Youth on Disadvantaged Communities
- The Effects of Nonprofit Versus For-Profit Ownership: Private Choices and Public Policy in Health Care
- National Bureau for Economic Research (NBER) Project on Nonprofit Organizations
- Summary Database of Select Financial Characteristics of Silicon Valley Nonprofit Organizations
- The Role of Social Innovation Goals in the Private Sector
- The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook (2nd Edition)
- The Political Dimensions of Corporate Social Responsibility
Faculty Research Projects
The Center funds individual research projects of faculty affiliates on fundamental questions that: impact policy or practice related to social innovation; contribute to our understanding of important social needs or problems theoretically or empirically; or apply or adapt entrepreneurial skills or business methods to address social issues. Currently, CSI provides support for the faculty research projects.
See "hot topics" at right for more faculty research projects.
CSI encourages and supports research to promote the integration of management and business skills to the social sector including, but not limited to, the following:
- Performance Measurement, including Social Return on Investment
- Effects of Comparative Organizational Form on Performance, Efficiency and Effectiveness
- The Efficiency of Social Capital Markets
- Philanthropic Institutional Design and Outcomes Measurement
- The Effect of Nonprofit Law on Social Innovation
- Corporate Citizenship and Cross-Sector Partnerships
- New Approaches to Nonprofit Strategy and Management
- Social and Cause-Related Marketing
- Strategies of Social Entrepreneurship
- The Viability of Social-Purpose Business Organizations
- Specific Challenges of Social Innovation in Education, the Environment, Healthcare, Housing, Community Development, and International Development
