Air-Pollution Knowledge Is Power
Tweets about local air quality from US embassies around the world reduced local pollution and improved health.
Sectors - Articles
Discipline, Punish, and Palliate
Palliative measures such as needle-exchange programs form a third model of neoliberal urban-poverty governance alongside policing and paternalism.
For Investors, Protesting Beats Divesting
Investors exert more influence over corporate management through engagement than through boycotts and divestment.
Review
The Future of Elite Giving
The coauthors of For-Profit Philanthropy recommend policies to reestablish the public’s trust in philanthropy—but did it ever exist?
SSIR Online, Spring 2023 Issue
A collection of standout pieces published online about housing justice, ESG, funding social ventures, and the effects of large, unrestricted gifts on leaders.
Marking 20 Years
Looking back on the first two decades of SSIR.
The Case for Effusive Altruism
A new way to think about giving.
The Importance of Temporal Issues in Philanthropy
Previewing one of the great debates of the coming decade.
“Future-Making” for Social Impact
Radically rethinking how we organize and govern for social impact.
Grand Strategy and the Social Innovation Ecosystem
Let’s move beyond our own self-interest and restructure our ecosystem for the challenges yet to come.