A Swimmer’s Guide to Networks
Understanding how network members interact with each other is crucial to advancing their common aims.
Solutions - Articles
Scaling Community Finance to Fill a Growing Market Gap
New public awareness of how the traditional financial system fails small businesses creates an opportunity to build models that connect entrepreneurs with the capital they need to recover, grow, and thrive—and that drive a more equitable and inclusive economy.
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Human-Centric Business
An excerpt from Convergence argues that today’s leaders must recognize the many signals of accelerating disruption and the increasing convergence where people, technology, and business intersect.
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.
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.