How Organizations Build Trust
Civil society institutions have an important role to play in reversing our collective trust deficit.
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Learning From an Intergenerational Blowup Over Social Justice
Like so many organizations, our environmental nonprofit was rocked by internal conflict. What happened and what did we learn?
The 10 Most Popular SSIR Articles of 2023
Design thinking, narrative change, AI, impact investing, the future of philanthropy, and more.
In a War on ‘Woke Capitalism,’ What’s a Good Company to Do?
What strategic organizations can learn from Disney and Bud Light.
SSIR’s 2023 Social Innovation Reading List
Highlights of this year’s book reviews and excerpts on topics including cities, the imagination, disruption, capitalism, and careers.
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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.