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. Read the cover story in SSIR’s new summer issue.
A conversation with two nationally renowned school superintendents about the biggest challenges they face, the relationship between education and democracy, and the tension between innovation and equity.
Impact strategies must reckon with the problem that capital is frequently trapped in highly illiquid investments with no prospect of exit.
Patrick Awuah launched Ashesi University as an institution of higher learning thoroughly shaped by social innovation. Read a new case study on how the school became a shining example of “changemaker institutions.”
We all—editors, writers, and readers alike—are not just students or observers of the world around us but builders of its future.
Philanthropic, nonprofit, and civil society organizations that face highly restrictive state policies can leverage compliance to pursue their goals as legalized entities, making them harder to suppress.
An excerpt from A Better Way to Fundraise on making major giving the operating system for fundraising
Philanthropic capital can’t fill the vacuum left by the collapse of international aid, but funders need to move from caution to courage and accelerate their pace of giving.
Inter-nursing home games in France happen regularly across the country thanks in part to financial support from the National Solidarity Fund for Autonomy, an arm of the country’s social-security system.
What SSIR readers are saying about articles on artificial intelligence, charitable giving, and navigating organizational disagreement.
How schools can support both individual and collective thriving in our democracy.
Choice, agency, and how to design a learning system where private gain and public good reinforce each other.
An excerpt from Beyond Belief on building the evidence revolution in Washington
What the research says about education, jobs, AI, and what students will need to succeed as future workers and citizens.
There is philanthropic investing, and there is commercial investing, and there is nothing in between.
The problems are big, the time is short, and the resources are limited.
In the face of current funding uncertainty, US nonprofits must innovate to sustain their missions.
As AI begins to transform education, work, and social life, we need to focus on developing and expanding capacities essential for human flourishing.
A final sweep of 60 years of evidence reveals durable truths about how development succeeds and fails.
