Breaking the Cycle of Incarceration
Children Heard and Seen counsels young people with incarcerated parents, helping them to heal from trauma and plot a different course.
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Adapt and Innovate
Impact measurement evolves with changing times and circumstances. That dynamic offers opportunities to innovate, as the HKJC Charities Trust found.
Korea’s Experiment With Pay-for-Success
The Social Progress Credits program was the world’s first privately led pay-for-success experiment. Its implementation has boosted the South Korean impact ecosystem and provides valuable lessons about the measurement and incentivization of social value.
Power Sharing to End Homelessness
We’re leading a collective-impact effort to prevent homelessness in Silicon Valley. Our public-private partnership offers a profound model for systems change. | Open access to this article is made possible by Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
Decolonize Civil Society Research
Unequal power relations between researchers from the Global North and South undermine their joint pursuit of knowledge.
The Importance of Scaffolding
The structures that participants in a collaboration create to work together are critical to its success.
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The Problem With AI Is Us
AI does not herald the end of humanity—or it doesn’t have to, philosopher Shannon Vallor argues in The AI Mirror, if we decide to change its use and design.
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The Great Outsourcing of Government
In The Tech Coup, former politician turned AI policy analyst Marietje Schaake warns that governments have ceded too much power to Silicon Valley—to the detriment of the public good.
Whither Education Reform?
We can make progress by targeting big problems that are acknowledged across partisan lines and can galvanize supermajority support to solve them.
SSIR Online, Fall 2024 Issue
A collection of standout pieces published online about scaling nonprofits, measuring the impact of training, and the challenge of impact investing.