Shelter From the Storm
As an ideas magazine, SSIR offers a sanctuary for deep thinking on the issues of our time, including President Donald Trump's attempts to disrupt the social sector in ways that will be felt for years.
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SSIR Online, Fall 2025 Issue
A collection of standout pieces published online about handling systems collapse, measuring narrative change, and helping NGOs shift to working with government.
Drawing on Courage and Community for the Coming Challenges
The diversity and vibrancy of our sector give me optimism that we will meet the current crisis and weather future challenges in the years to come.
AI for Health Management
By streamlining tasks, Avalon Health AI seeks to boost the health-care sector's efficiency in Zimbabwe.
How to Finance Community-Led Solutions
Raven Indigenous Outcomes Funds has pioneered community-driven outcomes contracts to center Indigenous communities in Canada as leaders in addressing health and social problems. They present a bold new model for outcomes purchasing.
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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.