Funding the Invisible
How nonprofits in countries with conflict and closing civil spaces are doubly penalized in the funding world, and 10 ways funders can better serve them.
Government - Articles
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Build the Market First, Then Fund Innovation
Scaling proven solutions to the early childhood skills gap requires building a market for parenting interventions.
Making Compliance Work for Philanthropy
Funders need to identify, embrace, and ultimately demystify compliance, reclaiming it as a tool that enables, rather than impedes, philanthropy’s essential purpose.
Beyond Direct Provision
To create systemic change in health care for children, advocacy groups need to look to government.
How Inclusion Builds Democracy
Brazil's commitment to social inclusion and equity has boosted its young democracy.
Measuring More and Learning Less
How an excessive focus on methods has distracted attention from the more fundamental challenge of building rigor and learning overall.
Scale That Lasts
A framework for moving from government partnership to country ownership
Embedding Private Sector Innovations in Government Systems
As international aid to improve education outcomes declines, a new partnership model shows the key to success isn't external funding, it's strategic integration into existing public education systems.
The 10 Most Popular SSIR Articles of 2025
Building collective capacity; AI's power for the greater good; grappling with systems collapse; lessons from collaborative philanthropy; and more.
When USAID Shut Down, Its Lessons Nearly Vanished. AI Helped Recover Them
A final sweep of 60 years of evidence reveals durable truths about how development succeeds and fails.