Education Transformation Against All Odds
A grassroots movement to revitalize public education in Lebanon has shown promising results—and enabled schools to play a critical role in the violent crisis of recent months.
Social Issues - Articles
Need a Lift? 13 Stories That Inspired Us in 2024
Innovation stories on social connection, empowering youth, and revitalizing green spaces offer some year-end inspiration.
Top 2024 Stories From SSIR’s Global Editions
Stories selected by the editors of Stanford Social Innovation Review’s global editions and why they chose to share them with their local audiences.
Books for Social Innovators!
A literary gift guide from SSIR
The 10 Most Popular SSIR Articles of 2024
Healing trauma in systems; a critique of strategic philanthropy; nonprofit growth revisited; AI-powered nonprofits; communication in a new era; and more.
Funding the Grassroots of Environmental Justice
The Environmental Justice Resourcing Collective was created to fund work led by and for communities most impacted by environmental racism, climate change, and unjust systems. Four years later, what lessons can funders draw from our experiences supporting frontline communities?
Adapting What Works to Support a Community of Doers
To counter disruptive market forces changing the media, nonprofit communicators can adopt ideas from other sectors, their own programmatic strengths, and communities.
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Connection Is Our Lost Superpower
An excerpt from Relationality on fixing our crisis of loneliness
Policies for Housing With Heart
Multigenerational living is an old solution whose time has come.
Knowledge Is Human
Why building a trusted information ecosystem requires building a community.