Stanford Social Innovation Review Honored With 2009 Maggie Award for Most Improved Publication

STANFORD, Calif., May 1, 2009 — Stanford Social Innovation Review has been honored with a 2009 Maggie Award for its successful redesign. Judged on its editorial package, readability, research, cover, and editorial design elements, the journal received top recognition in the category “Most Improved Annual, Semi-Annual, Three-Time or Quarterly/Trade & Consumer.”

Bestowed annually by the nonprofit Western Publishing Association, the prestigious Maggie Awards have recognized achievement in a wide variety of publishing categories for more than 58 years in the western United States. Other Maggie winners this year included Sunset, Mother Jones, San Francisco, and LA Weekly. A complete list of this year’s winners is available online: www.wpa-online.org/2009winners.php.

Stanford Social Innovation Review’s makeover last year marked the publication’s fifth anniversary. Built upon months of online surveys, individual and group meetings, and discussions with key stakeholders, the new look was created by award-winning designer David Herbick, the Chevy Chase, Md.–based creative force behind the redesign of Foreign Policy, Civilization, Technology Review, and Preservation.

About the Stanford Social Innovation Review
The Stanford Social Innovation Review is published by the Center for Social Innovation at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. The award-winning quarterly journal is the pre-eminent publication for executives and leaders in the field of social innovation, covering the latest ideas, research, and solutions in an engaging and thought-provoking manner. The Center for Social Innovation cultivates leaders to solve the world’s toughest social and environmental problems. Center participants lead corporate efforts to improve sustainable practices, manage nonprofits through strategic growth, and launch social enterprises that bring life-changing solutions such as loans to small businesses and safe lighting to the world’s poorest places. The Center provides research, education, and experiential programs that reach across the usual silos separating the business, nonprofit, and government worlds and that promote development of innovative solutions to build a more just, sustainable, and prosperous world. For more information, visit the Stanford Social Innovation Review website at www.ssireview.org.