A Social Movement for Conservation
Because government action will always be dependent on public support, leading conservation organizations must focus on building a constituency for nature.
Social Issues - Articles
How Foundations Can Make Progress on Long-Term Social Change Amid the COVID-19 Crisis
Amid foundations' necessary and immediate responses to the COVID-19 crisis, there are unusual opportunities to advance their long-term goals of building more just and equitable societies.
How Funders Can Help Save an Economic Engine of the Developing World
The COVID-19 crisis is threatening small and growing businesses in low-income nations and the capacity development organizations (CDOs) they depend upon. Helping CDOs overcome three types of financial challenges is critical to responding to the current and coming economic devastation.
How One National Nonprofit Is Adapting to COVID-19
Lessons learned at Friends of the Children about maintaining stability in service during this crisis and the next one.
Creating a University From Scratch
How Minerva is reimagining higher education now and partnering to scale for impact in the future. Part of the Innovating Higher Education series.
The Cultural and Social Challenges to Slowing the Pandemic in Africa
The coronavirus was slow to make its way to Africa, but it is now there in full force and will be difficult to contain because of certain cultural and social behaviors.
Four Ways Corporations Can Achieve Authentic Social Impact
How corporate leaders can strike a balance between business success and genuine social impact that also inspires others to act.
Crisis and Adaptation for the Public Good
How Tulane University rebuilt from Hurricane Katrina with a renewed commitment to embedding social innovation and community engagement at the core of its mission. Part of Innovating Higher Education for the Greater Good, a new series from SSIR and Ashoka U.
For a More Equitable America, Understand Race and Racism as Actions We Do and Can Undo
With the coronavirus crisis placing a magnifying lens over the deep inequities in American society, the nation possesses an opportunity to face longstanding injustices that could allow us to go beyond just mourning our collective failures or patching over them with emergency measures.
Countering Coronavirus With Open Social Innovation
Germany’s first government-hosted crisis hackathon offers seven lessons on how to make the most of a messy-but-promising way to kick-start social innovation.