Impact Investing
Impact Investing Should Be Hard
In the face of immense social challenges, impact investing needs to be more than traditional investing with an impact report.
The road to making legal equal protection real, proactive, and effective is long, but it begins with being clear about the destination. Sign up for SSIR’s newsletter for updates on new articles in the new Realizing a Multiracial Democracy for All series.
In the face of immense social challenges, impact investing needs to be more than traditional investing with an impact report.
A conversation with authors Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor about how solidarity relates to identity, how leaders can build cohesion across differences, and what lessons the political left could learn from the right.
Unrestricted grants produce powerful impacts, but we won’t see more of them until we address the hidden barriers.
An excerpt from Making Work Matter on developing impactful leadership
The movement to mobilize big bets in philanthropy is growing. Let’s not dissuade potential donors by framing it as “a new way to fail.”
To fulfill this nation’s promise as a multiracial democracy requires more than tinkering around the edges. Renewal requires bottom-up transformation. Follow the series.
By creating a network of grassroots movements and calling out connections across issues, the social sector can drive demand for solutions and spur policy makers to act.
Learning to span the borderlands separating distinctive social systems is a prerequisite for any significant change effort.
Despite the revolutionary idea that all are created equal, the American promise of “We, the People” remains unfulfilled. This series, sponsored by PolicyLink, explores how each of us can carry forward the work of generations before us to realize a flourishing nation designed for all of its people.
OpenAI’s governance saga might give leaders pause about alternative ways of organizing, but research shows hybrid governance models can be successful—with effective boards to lead them.
An excerpt from The Digital Double Bind on the digital revolution in the Global South
In a fragmented impact ecosystem, ed-tech needs collaboration to prioritize education over technology.
How recognizing trauma in ourselves, other people, and the systems around us can open up new pathways to solving social problems.
Because trust-based philanthropy shouldn’t mean blind faith.
Like so many organizations, our environmental nonprofit was rocked by internal conflict. What happened and what did we learn?
The pursuit of better outcomes for underserved communities, rather than the novelty of emerging technologies, should drive innovation in health care.
Design thinking has failed to deliver on its promise to solve the world’s thorniest social challenges. Adopting a critical design stance can help designers serve communities, rather than their own methodology.