2023 Summer Social Innovation Reading List
Suggested books and articles from SSIR’s editors.
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Local Collaboration Can Drive Global Progress on the SDGs
Learning from global peers and using the sustainable development goals as a framework for measuring progress, US cities are accelerating solutions to social problems.
Measuring Narrative Change: Moving From Theory to Practice
Funders may be reluctant to support narrative work because progress is difficult to evaluate. Are these objections valid?
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The Ask
An excerpt from Good Influence on harnessing the “Influencer Effect” for impact
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Bossware Is Coming for You: Worker Surveillance Technology Is Everywhere
Technology enables companies to monitor their employees constantly. But workers are organizing to fight back.
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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.