The Social Sector Needs a Meta Movement
By creating a network of grassroots movements and calling out connections across issues, the social sector can drive demand for solutions and spur policy makers to act.
Solutions - Articles
Spotlighting Shared Outcomes for Social Impact Programs That Work
A greater focus on co-created, measurable outcomes can help build trust between public, private, and social sector partners, and thus improve the effectiveness of outcomes-based contracting and the social programs they create.
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The Change You Want to See in the World: International Philanthropy and Effective Cross-Border Giving
How can you scale your social impact across borders and advance your giving strategies? Where do you start and what do you need to know about mechanisms for global charity? SSIR publisher Michael Voss speaks with Kelsey McCarthy of the Charities Aid Foundation of America and Fred Kaynor of Schwab Charitable. A sponsored podcast developed with the support of DAFgiving360.
Preventing System ‘Snap Back’
Because systems naturally resist change, systems thinkers must learn to build change with resilience.
Social Change in the Office
Four strategies for organizational activism—advocate, subvert, facilitate, and heal—can help the increasing number of people who want to challenge racism, sexism, heterosexism, ableism, and other injustices in the workplace.
Social-Tech Entrepreneurs: Building Blocks of a New Social Economy
How a new genre of social entrepreneur can wield emerging technologies to create integrated and inclusive social and industrial policies.
The Racism of the ‘Hard-to-Find’ Qualified Black Candidate Trope
Stereotypes and racial bias in hiring and promotion are damaging at personal, career, and organizational levels.
We Need to Reimagine the Modern Think Tank
Think tanks can only help pave the path toward a more inclusive, just, and equal country if we modernize our concept of expertise, re-think who gets to drive policy change, and re-imagine how policy is developed.
Recap of SSIR’s 2021 Frontiers of Social Innovation Conference
Insightful quotes and summaries of sessions from the “People, Power, Resources: Enacting an Equitable Future" conference.
How European Governments Can Help Spur Innovations for the Public Good
Sensible innovation policy design, targeted at innovations for the public good, can be a crucial tool in helping our societies recover and rebuild.