SSIR Online, Fall 2026 Issue
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Articles
The Man and the Birds
Rodgers Oloo Magutha, 28, has become a local celebrity for rescuing and rehabilitating injured and orphaned wild birds in his one-room apartment in Nairobi.
Searching for Good Vibes
There's validity to the common explanations for the "vibecession," but articles in this issue go deeper into the longer-term loss of agency, growing disbelief in upward mobility, and instability at the root of many people's lives.
Building a Learning Society
School-based models for developing talent won't provide the skillful, resilient people every society will need going forward. We need to build civic architecture for recognizing learning whenever and wherever it occurs: at home, at play, in community, and especially at work.
Dismissing Microfinance Won’t Help Solve Global Poverty
Microfinance isn’t a cure-all solution to poverty, but abandoning it would ignore the real evidence that responsible financial services make a positive, lasting impact on people’s lives.
Donor Retention Requires Transformation
To solve the nonprofit sector's donor retention crisis, we need to look past tactics and superficial reform: We need to transform philanthropy to make philanthropy truly transformative.
Our Vanishing Developmental Commons
What human capacities must remain stubbornly human, even in an age of intelligent machines?
Excerpt
Reform as Process, Not Project
An excerpt from Reform as Process on reforming government bureaucracy
Review
Arriving at Collective Power
In The Common Good Economy, Mariana Mazzucato is clear-eyed on where we need to go, but the next step is understanding the power structures that prevent us from getting there.
How to Build Digital Health Platforms in Emerging Markets
In developing economies, the digital health platforms that actually work are not imported. They are built from scratch by the communities they serve.