Holding Up the Sky: Achieving Women’s Empowerment Requires Working with Women and Men
Involving men in women’s economic development projects can lead to higher impact for women and changes in gender norms.
Social Issues - Articles
Paid in Full
How to reorient philanthropic investments for justice-oriented collective action and impact.
Is Private Education in Africa the Solution to Failing Education Aid?
How the private sector is helping address Africa’s unmet demand for education in the face of falling education aid.
The Power of Early-Stage Organizations to Change Entrenched Systems
New organizations often bring new tactics to old problems, but they need funding and support to move from idea to systemic change.
Speaking Out When Our Values Are in Play
Five critical questions to guide the work of nonprofit communicators.
Video
Communicating Our Values
In this video from The Communications Network's ComNet17 conference in Miami, Grant Oliphant, president of the Heinz Endowments, challenges communicators at social sector organizations not to hide behind silence when the values they stand for are being politicized.
How a Nobel Prize in Economics Could Help Solve the Climate Crisis
A growing body of research that explains how human behavior helped create the climate crisis could also point the way toward solving it.
The Half-Truths That Have Sidetracked Girls’ Education
We are still falling short on girls’ education globally. It’s time for a new approach.
10 SSIR Articles on Climate Change Solutions
A collection of our articles highlighting environmental issues and climate change innovation.
Podcast
Bridging the Climate Change Investment Gap
Investments in discovering and developing new solutions to address climate change are woefully low and have even been falling. Sarah Kearney and Scott Burger discuss how can philanthropists help.