How Philanthropy Must Address the Climate Emergency
Breaking down silos means starting from intersectionality and emphasizing climate justice.
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Innovating for a Higher Purpose
An excerpt from Fearless Innovation delves into new potentials for innovation as a driving force in the social sector.
The Struggle to Overcome Racism
The killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers has ignited protests and focused the national discourse on institutional racism and how to eradicate it. SSIR's editors have assembled a list of resources to help leaders of social change and activists trying to put an end to this intractable American scourge.
What Is the Civic University For?
Embedding action through research by placing the Sustainable Development Goals at the center of university planning. Part of the Innovating Higher Education series.
Connecting Housing, Community, and Health
A look at four “housing-plus” initiatives that are building healthy neighborhoods.
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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.
The Bias of ‘Professionalism’ Standards
Professionalism has become coded language for white favoritism in workplace practices that more often than not leave behind people of color. This is the fourth of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.