Nonprofits & NGOs
SSIR Online, Spring 2024 Issue
A collection of standout pieces published online about DEI, impact investing, learning from failure, and generational conflict in social justice organizations.
Tag: Failure
Health
It’s Time to Share Our Failures
Global health professionals need to build a culture of trust in which we can learn as much from what doesn’t work as from what does.
Philanthropy & Funding
Getting the Best Possible Failures in Philanthropy
What constitutes “good” failures in philanthropy, and how can we have more of them?
Education
Press Button to Complete School
Like games, classes aren’t interesting when the skills they require are too easy to master and there’s no chance of failure.
Organizational Development
Forgetting Failure
It’s time to move beyond our focus on failure in the social sector, and to develop ongoing and meaningful practices for learning and improvement.
Social Enterprise
Harvesting Lessons
A social enterprise that served farmers in Kenya had to close down, but it yielded a healthy crop of insights about failure.
Social Entrepreneurship
Thriving on Failure
In cities all around the world, entrepreneurs are gathering to discuss the flubs, flops, and fiascos that punctuate their careers.
Social Entrepreneurship
Learning From Failure
There are important lessons to be learned from social enterprises that have failed—an introduction to the spring 2015 issue.
Philanthropy
How Leading Philanthropists Fail Well
Five insights from results-oriented philanthropists on how to reap the benefits of failure.
Social Entrepreneurship
Turning Success into Failure
An essential skill for innovators and entrepreneurs is the ability to turn success into failure.