Growing the Green Workforce
Chicago-based nonprofit Openlands created an arborist apprenticeship program to train the next generation of arborists to maintain the city’s urban forest.
Sectors - Articles
A School of Indigenous Knowledge
The Tat Sat Community Academy tackles Uganda’s education crisis with a curriculum that emphasizes practical job skills, financial literacy, and cultural knowledge.
TV for Africa’s Deaf Community
Signs TV Uganda offers programming by deaf broadcasters that is also interpreted in sign to serve Africa’s growing, yet underserved, hearing-impaired demographic.
Saudi Female Social Entrepreneurs
Women in the Middle East seeking to launch social enterprises face significant barriers, but they can overcome them by leveraging social ties.
Air-Pollution Knowledge Is Power
Tweets about local air quality from US embassies around the world reduced local pollution and improved health.
Discipline, Punish, and Palliate
Palliative measures such as needle-exchange programs form a third model of neoliberal urban-poverty governance alongside policing and paternalism.
For Investors, Protesting Beats Divesting
Investors exert more influence over corporate management through engagement than through boycotts and divestment.
Review
The Future of Elite Giving
The coauthors of For-Profit Philanthropy recommend policies to reestablish the public’s trust in philanthropy—but did it ever exist?
SSIR Online, Spring 2023 Issue
A collection of standout pieces published online about housing justice, ESG, funding social ventures, and the effects of large, unrestricted gifts on leaders.
Marking 20 Years
Looking back on the first two decades of SSIR.