A Guide for Intrapreneurs
An excerpt from Driving Innovation From Within: A Guide for Internal Entrepreneurs examines how employees catalyze innovation from within organizations.
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Collaboration - Articles
Innovative ways organizations can work together to increase their overall reach and efficacy (more)
The Speed of Trust in an Anxious Era: Recap of the 2019 Nonprofit Management Institute
At SSIR’s 2019 Nonprofit Management Institute, presenters and participants addressed the economic and emotional anxieties facing civil society leaders and shared advice for moving forward with confidence.
The Art of Values-Based Innovation for Humanitarian Action
To truly benefit from innovation, humanitarian organizations need to regard it as a set of values that runs through all of their practices. The first of five articles in Humanitarian Innovation in Action, a new series exploring innovation as a tool for change within complex institutions.
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An Office Space of One’s Own
An excerpt from Shared Space and the New Nonprofit Workplace, which looks at the challenge of finding affordable and stable office space for nonprofits.
Filling the Gaps in Collective Impact
Nine supporting activities that can help make collective impact approaches to social change more nuanced and rigorous.
The United States Needs Career-Connected Learning
With a study-and-work approach, we can create more opportunities for more students beyond high school. A Viewpoint from the Fall 2019 issue.
Mobile Innovators
Diasporan communities have too often been overlooked in business ventures aimed at both increasing profit and providing social good. A feature story from the Fall 2019 issue.
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How Movements Create Transformational Change
An excerpt from Cascades delves into the aftermath of the Orange Revolution to examine the implications of “surviving victory.”
Inside Switzerland’s Radical Drug Policy Innovation
A look at how Switzerland radically and successfully changed its approach to drug policy following a heroin epidemic in the late 1980s and 90s, and what the effort teaches us about the social innovation process.
How Reverse Mentoring Can Lead to More Equitable Workplaces
In response to a July 16 article about improving organizations' DEI efforts by reimagining the roles of mentor and mentee, SSIR reader Yen Ooi wrote that “calling it 'reverse mentoring' might set out the wrong impression in the relationship to start with.” What do you think? This is the final of 10 articles in a special DEI series.