Revitalizing Korea’s Small Cities
How the urban revitalization project Localize Gunsan breathed new life into a declining area by applying a pacer model that supports young entrepreneurs for an extended time.
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Beyond Direct Provision
To create systemic change in health care for children, advocacy groups need to look to government.
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Autonomy, Culture, and the Voice of Silence
Why silence, obligation, and dissent mean different things across cultures, and what leaders get wrong when they assume voice is universal.
SSIR Online, Spring 2026 Issue
What SSIR readers are saying about articles on innovation in trying times, data and social justice, and impact investing.
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Drowning in Data
Funders are calling for more program evaluation, but nonprofits are often collecting dubious data, at great cost to themselves and ultimately to the people they serve.
Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
Plotting Impact Beyond Simple Metrics
For NGOs, impact comes in different forms and to track the cycles of social change work, we must think across the tangibility and the speed of emergence of change.
Ten Nonprofit Funding Models
With an understanding of these 10 funding models, nonprofit leaders can use the for-profit world's valuable practice of engaging in succinct and clear conversations about long-term financial strategy.
Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition
Social entrepreneurship is attracting growing amounts of talent, money, and attention, but along with its increasing popularity has come less certainty about what exactly a social entrepreneur is and does.