Technology
How AI Disclosures Disconnect
Seeing an AI disclosure on a social post leads users to disengage, because they feel the creator spent less effort on making it.
Collaboration
Resourcing Appalachian Resilience After Helene
Appalachia’s recovery from Hurricane Helene offers a vision of the future and a road map to follow for anywhere in the world where underdeveloped infrastructure is exposed to climate volatility.
Leadership
If You Want to Teach Social Innovation, Teach Power
“As one of the highest expressions of personal agency, entrepreneurship is inextricable from power. It has always been about power. The work is to teach our students to engage it.”
Nonprofits & NGOs
Nonprofit Mergers Need More Than Mission Alignment
What two mergers taught us about the necessary conditions and hard truths that come after "yes."
Civic Engagement
De-Risking Press Freedom
How to fund, protect, and grow public interest information.
Education
Building a Learning Society
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 for building civic architecture that recognizes learning whenever and wherever it occurs.
Arts & Culture
The Six-Seat Revolution
A theater director transformed an abandoned newsstand into a radically new theatrical experience that is helping to revive the historic center of a Southern Italian town.
Arts & Culture
The Future of the Performing Arts Depends on Strategic Partnerships
As the industry and its financial model become increasingly precarious, a reimagining of how performing arts organizations can operate more efficiently is critical for survival.
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Philanthropy & Funding
The Charitable Deduction and Its Discontents
Due to regulatory complexity, the charitable deduction has become a mirage. Only through careful planning can donors optimize their giving.
Scaling
Scale Doesn’t Belong (Only) to Government
Choosing the right path to scale depends on the nature of the problem we're trying to solve.
Philanthropy & Funding
SSIR Online, Fall 2026 Issue
What SSIR readers are saying about articles on billionaires and their philanthropy.
Environment
The Man and the Birds
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.
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Scaling
Scale Really Matters
The problems are big, the time is short, and the resources are limited.
Philanthropy & Funding
Why Don’t Philanthropists Build Anymore?
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.
Philanthropy & Funding
Scale Is a Myth! Embrace the Long Defeat!
Why the ghost of Paul Farmer wants you scaring the horses at Skoll
Philanthropy & Funding
Does Everything in the Social Sector Need to Scale?
In a world that no longer behaves like a scalable system, success must be something other than growth.
Scaling
Scale Right, Not Cheap and Easy
Social innovation means building a road to the future that doesn't yet exist, without lowering standards.