SSIR Online, Spring 2025 Issue
A collection of standout pieces published online about co-leadership, democracy, multigenerational living, Gen Z, and global development’s power dynamics.
Sectors - Articles
Preventing Identity-Based Violence From the Ground Up
Worsening conflicts around the world need more than state actors to resolve them. Community-based organizations are working to heal the social fragmentation at the root of mass atrocity and identity-based violence.
Review
The Sweet Spot of Discomfort
D. Christopher Kayes offers a compassionate, albeit slim, guide to resilience-building for leaders.
How Regular Employees Became Recyclers
The disappearance of the recycling coordinator role, is a testament to an environmental success story: the institutionalization of recycling in higher education.
Funding the Fourth Estate
Philanthropists have been accused of donating disproportionately to major media outlets. An alliance of small news nonprofits seeks to make funding more equitable to save the news industry.
Court AI
A new AI-powered technology is expediting India’s notoriously dilatory legal system.
Why Does Philanthropy Ignore Big and Easy Wins?
The overdose crisis exposes how funders allow themselves to be diverted from impact.
Mobilizing Youth in the Philippines
The artist-activist collective DAKILA is organizing young people to push for their own political agenda.
Programmatic Asset Transfers as a Strategic Tool for Social Impact
Although often triggered by organizational stress, asset transfers should be seen not as a sign of organizational failure but as a valuable way to help both sides of the transfer achieve their goals. | Open access to this article made possible by The Sustained Collaboration Network
Activist Directors Cause Problems for Stakeholders
Push for short-term gains generates greater complaints about ESG issues among stakeholders.