---
category: "Private Organization"
aliases:
  - "SSIR"
tags:
  - Organization
  - Media
  - Philanthropy
  - StanfordUniversity
summary: "Quarterly on philanthropy and nonprofits launched in spring 2003 by the Center for Social Innovation at Stanford's Graduate School of Business, a Hewlett Foundation grantee."
start: 2003
location: "Stanford, California, USA"
relations:
  - type: founded
    with: "[[Stanford Graduate School of Business]]"
    reverse: true
    start: 2003
    fn: 1
created: 2026-09-23
updated: 2026-09-23
---

The Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) is a quarterly on philanthropy, nonprofits and social enterprise at [[Stanford University]]. According to the [[Stanford Graduate School of Business]], its Center for Social Innovation, a grantee of the [[William and Flora Hewlett Foundation]], launched the review in the spring of 2003.[^1]

### Coverage of Open Philanthropy

The review's Summer 2018 issue carried "Giving in the Light of Reason" by [[Marc Gunther]], a profile of [[Cari Tuna]] and [[Open Philanthropy]] that counted seven entities in which Tuna served as a director or major donor, among them [[Good Ventures]], the [[Open Philanthropy Action Fund]] and [[GiveWell]], and quoted [[Alexander Berger]] that "tax considerations are key."[^2]

### Footnotes

[^1]: Stanford Graduate School of Business. "History of the Center for Social Innovation." https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/experience/news-history/history/csi
[^2]: Gunther, Marc. "Giving in the Light of Reason." *Stanford Social Innovation Review,* Summer 2018. https://ssir.org/articles/entry/giving_in_the_light_of_reason