Environment
SSIR’s 2021 Guide to Climate Change Solutions
A collection of SSIR articles highlighting how social change leaders are responding to the ongoing climate crisis while the world reels from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Nonprofits & NGOs
Twin Engines for Propelling Social Impact
The business world’s “Engine 1/Engine 2” concept can help ambitious nonprofits balance today’s needs with tomorrow’s potential.
Social Enterprise
Reconceptualizing the Social Economy
The social economy is increasingly seen as a motor for social change, but how can this shift in perspectives be framed to better understand and harness its potential?
IN-DEPTH SERIES
European Perspectives on the Emerging Social Economy
Academics and scholar practitioners explore how the social economy could transform Europe and the rest of the world.
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Leadership
An Antidote to Orthodoxy
A new book argues that “alien” thinking can drive social change.
Education
The Two-Way Benefits of Local, Intergenerational Classroom Support
Four ways classroom tutoring support can improve education while increasing the well-being of young and older populations in underserved communities.
Podcast
Health
The Videos Saving Lives in the Developing World
Developing countries face a quality crisis in the delivery of frontline health care. The nonprofit Global Health Media marries modern video technology with compassionate instruction to fill the gap. This is the first episode of a two-part series about raising the quality of health care in the developing world. Listen to the second episode here: The Healing Force of Family.
Health
SSIR Guide to COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution
A collection of SSIR articles on civil society's insights into the logistics behind a global vaccination campaign, including ideas for winning over the hearts and minds of people who aren’t yet convinced they should get the shot.
Impact Investing
Impact Investors Need to Share Power, Not Just Capital
Lack of access to capital is a longstanding and well-known barrier to equity for communities of color and women, but overcoming systemic injustices will take more than moving money. How investments are made, and the power dynamics behind those decisions, need to change, too.
Education
Long-Life Learning and the Age-Integration of Higher Education
A look at how colleges and universities can move from age-segregated institutions to age-integrated ones.