The Unintended Impact of Diversity Awards
Targeted scholarships may draw underrepresented groups away from more lucrative funding.
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Justice Without Violence
Arguing that police reform is impossible, Derecka Purnell charts an alternative path to building safer communities and a more just world.
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Embrace the Process
Cynthia Rayner and François Bonnici recommend that organizations seeking systems change focus less on outcomes and more on principles and practice.
Collective Impact 2.0
Authors of a seminal article on collective impact explore what it means to put equity at the center of the practice and how that changes the collective impact process itself.
SSIR Online, Winter 2022 Issue
A collection of standout pieces published online about impact accounting, intersectional storytelling, NGO endgames, universal basic income in South Korea, and a social enterprise supporting coffee growers in Central America.
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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.