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Building Power for Healthy Communities
A decade of learning about power building from The California Endowment’s “Building Healthy Communities” initiative
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Making the Gig Economy Work for Workers
The gig economy has upended the traditional employer-employee relationship and informalized work globally. Now workers around the world are pushing back.
Cinemas as Second Learning Places in Japan
A nonprofit collaboration’s novel approach to addressing truancy and isolation in Japan.
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A New Framework for Understanding Power Building
Lessons from electoral campaigns that built power for structural change
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A Story of Reparations and Healing From New Zealand
New Zealand’s reparations for the Māori people are an example the United States can follow in pursuit of racial justice for Black and Native American communities.
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From Lion Killers to Lion Savers
An excerpt from Mixed Signals on using incentive to change culture
Affirmative Action Decision Is a Call to Double Down on Racial Equity
The Supreme Court ruled against affirmative action. But race-informed approaches to policy can still transform our institutions in ways that close equity gaps and benefit everyone.
Cross-Boundary Collaborations in Cities: Where to Start
How public, for-profit, and civic organizations working to address the same city-wide social challenge can find a common starting point.
The United Nations’ Innovation Learning Journey
Despite a notoriously innovation-adverse environment in UN organizations overall, a growing body of success stories are changing lives and contributing to continuous organizational learning.
2023 Summer Social Innovation Reading List
Suggested books and articles from SSIR’s editors.