Human Rights
Business Models for Building Refugee Resilience
A new era of business collaboration is rising to address humanitarian crises, and the humanitarian sector can help bring these new models to scale.
Articles
IN-DEPTH SERIES
Can Business Really Step Up to Help Solve Global Problems?
This article series, produced in partnership with Business Fights Poverty, explores how global companies are stepping up to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, and includes practical ideas and guidance for business leaders of today.
Leadership
How to Create Better Nonprofit Executive Teams
Only 19 percent of nonprofit executive team members strongly agree that their teams focus on the right work. To improve the performance of these vital groups, leaders should ask five critical questions.
EXCERPT
Impact Investing
The Politics of Impact
An excerpt from Jed Emerson’s The Purpose of Capital: Elements of Impact, Financial Flows, and Natural Being
Philanthropy & Funding
Getting the Best Possible Failures in Philanthropy
What constitutes “good” failures in philanthropy, and how can we have more of them?
VIDEO
Measurement & Evaluation
How Feedback Can Change People and Places
Kate Lauzon found sobriety and a role as an activist through her Massachusetts city's weekly resident feedback sessions, a gathering of civic groups known as "Working Cities Wednesdays" organized by Habitat for Humanity. Part of a series produced for SSIR with the support of the Hewlett Foundation.
Foundations
Wielding Philanthropic Leadership With, Not For
Being a courageous and ethical leader in philanthropy means learning to listen, and sharing our power by encouraging, empowering, and enabling others.
Philanthropy & Funding
Philanthropic Leadership Means Following the Frontlines
How to shift the culture of philanthropy to one where funders understand they are part of—rather than in control of—social movements and systems-change work.
Measurement & Evaluation
Using Client Feedback to Stay on Course
Like a good GPS system, signals from multiple sources—grantees, staff, other funders, and beneficiaries—can help pinpoint where foundations stand.
Governance
Philanthropy’s Ultimate Power-Sharing Opportunity: Governance
For a foundation board to fulfill its essential duties, ensuring that it benefits from diverse voices, ideas, and perspectives is paramount.