Risks for the Future We Want
Philanthropists must learn from protesters and reimagine the formula for making change on racial justice.
Human Rights - Articles
Innovative policies and programs that advance the rights of individuals and communities (more)
Toward Co-Designing a Better Criminal Justice System
To improve public services like the justice system, social innovators need to co-design solutions with people who have experienced them and find ways to cut through the organizational barriers they faced.
Mass Decarceration, COVID-19, and Justice in America
COVID-19 and the horrific murders of George Floyd and other black Americans have amplified the desperate need for the US justice system to be radically reimagined.
The Struggle to Overcome Racism
The killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers has ignited protests and focused the national discourse on institutional racism and how to eradicate it. SSIR's editors have assembled a list of resources to help leaders of social change and activists trying to put an end to this intractable American scourge.
Advocating for Age in an Age of Uncertainty
How the COVID-19 crisis is amplifying ageism, and how advocates can push back.
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Invading the Darkness of Child Sex Trafficking
How Shared Hope International uses digital tools and meaningful grassroots experiences to activate support.
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.
Lessons From Mutual Aid During the Coronavirus Crisis
Community-led responses to the COVID-19 epidemic are providing a model for treating the vulnerable that should remain when this crisis comes to an end.
From Emancipation to Social Change
How do Latin American women not only defy gender norms to become entrepreneurs, but turn their own emancipation into societal change-making?
We Can’t Wait 202 Years for Gender Equality
Leaders fighting for gender equality can accelerate progress by looking for support in unexpected places, boosting successful efforts already underway, and using new data to augment their advocacy.