Health
How to Build Digital Health Platforms in Emerging Markets
In developing economies, the digital health platforms that actually work are not imported. They are built from scratch by the communities they serve.
School-based models for developing talent won’t provide the skillful, resilient people every society will need going forward. The authors of our new cover story argue we need to build civic architecture for recognizing learning whenever and wherever it occurs.
In developing economies, the digital health platforms that actually work are not imported. They are built from scratch by the communities they serve.
Choosing the right path to scale depends on the nature of the problem we're trying to solve.
There’s validity to the common explanations for the “vibecession,” but articles in this issue go deeper into the longer-term loss of agency, growing disbelief in upward mobility, and instability at the root of people’s lives.
Airbnb.org, the nonprofit arm of the homestay-platform company, is providing short-term homes to families in crisis, first responders, and medical patients worldwide.
In The Common Good Economy, Mariana Mazzucato is clear-eyed on where we need to go, but the next step is understanding the power structures that prevent us from getting there.
Rodgers Oloo Magutha, 28, has become a local celebrity for rescuing and rehabilitating injured and orphaned wild birds in his one-room apartment in Nairobi.
To solve the nonprofit sector's donor retention crisis, we need to look past tactics and superficial reform: We need to transform philanthropy to make philanthropy truly transformative.
Microfinance isn’t a cure-all solution to poverty, but abandoning it would ignore the real evidence that responsible financial services make a positive, lasting impact on people’s lives.
What SSIR readers are saying about articles on billionaires and their philanthropy.
What human capacities must remain stubbornly human, even in an age of intelligent machines?
An excerpt from Reform as Process on reforming government bureaucracy
Research shows that neurodivergent employees display tendencies that can boost organizational performance—but too many organizations are not designed to incorporate their unique skill sets.
AI companies are offering nonprofits free services and staff. Is the deal too good to be true?
The problems are big, the time is short, and the resources are limited.
Why the ghost of Paul Farmer wants you scaring the horses at Skoll
In a world that no longer behaves like a scalable system, success must be something other than growth.
Recognition, distortion, and the organizing infrastructure behind Minnesota's response to Operation Metro Surge.
The United States is living through a second Gilded Age. But unlike yesterday's magnates, today's billionaires prefer to write checks to existing organizations. They should instead build institutions that last.