Ineffective Workplace Wellness
A University of Illinois workplace wellness program reveals the central role of self-selection by participants. A Research article from the Spring 2020 issue.
Sectors - Articles
The Limits of Anger
New research explores why the anger that energizes social movements dissuades sympathizers within companies from taking action. A Research article from the Spring 2020 issue.
Review
The Activist CEO
Salesforce founder and co-CEO Marc Benioff wants the business world to adopt new values. Can he and other leaders live up to those norms? Do we even want them to? A book review from the Spring 2020 issue.
Review
The Technology Treadmill
Peter Gluckman and Mark Hanson’s Ingenious applies concepts and metaphors from evolutionary biology to explain the impact of technological innovation on human life. A book review from the Spring 2020 issue.
Don’t Forget the Public Sector
Social innovation leaders should reconsider partnering with the public sector, which has many more resources and much more power than the nonprofit sector, and more of a mandate to address social problems than does business.
More Seats at the Table
How the West Virginia Can’t Wait movement is using a gubernatorial race as a platform to raise up new leaders for the future, win or lose.
On Hiatus: Call for Submissions to SSIR Series on Social Change in an Era of Extreme Polarization
In response to the coronavirus epidemic, SSIR has temporarily halted seeking submissions for a series on extreme polarization and how it affects civil society's efforts to solve social problems, and how to build collaborations, communicate with the public, and manage conflict in a divided world.
Beware the Perfectly Average Nonprofit
Typical capacity building focuses on fixing nonprofits' weaknesses. It instead should start with the premise that every organization has core strengths on which it can build.
Reframing Human Services for Greater Impact
To realize the full value of human services community-based organizations, we need to change both the narrative around what they do and the structures for funding them, stressing shared values and a commitment to outcomes.
Podcast
Values-Based Philanthropy
A conversation about strategies for philanthropists to harness the values that will guide their giving, featuring SSIR's publisher Michael Voss; Jodi Morris, founder of Connecting Growth Globally; and Eddie Brown, national managing director and head of Schwab Advisor Family Office. A sponsored podcast developed with the support of DAFgiving360.