The Center for Social Innovation (CSI) at the Stanford Graduate School of Business 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 small loans to small businesses and safe lighting to the world's poorest places. The Center is an important vehicle for delivering on Stanford University's commitment to seek solutions to the world's most pressing problems. The Center leverages top-tier faculty from the Graduate School of Business to provide research, education and experiential programs to develop leaders that are aware, equipped, and motivated to drive social change.