Making Behavioral Science Work for Conservation
At its core, conservation is about behavior change. Yet few organizations have put in place the structure, standards, and accountability needed to apply behavioral science effectively.
Solutions - Articles
SSIR’s 2025 Social Innovation Reading List
Highlights of this year’s book reviews and excerpts on topics including gun violence prevention, cash transfers, refugees, regenerative agriculture, adapting to climate change, reinventing solidarity, and more.
Need a Boost? 14 Stories That Inspired Us in 2025
Innovation stories on collaborating for greater impact, protecting and preserving history, affordable housing, an inspiring model of civic leadership, and more.
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What ‘Good’ Means
An excerpt from Evaluative Inquiry for Systemic Change on embedding value into evaluation
A World of Innovation
A look at the issues and articles that resonated most with SSIR’s local language edition readers in 2025.
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If You Want People in the Office, Build One Worth Coming To
An excerpt from Irresistible Change on a return-to-office strategy that works
What Kind of World Is AI Building?
The ideologies behind today's most powerful technology
The 10 Most Popular SSIR Articles of 2025
Building collective capacity; AI's power for the greater good; grappling with systems collapse; lessons from collaborative philanthropy; and more.
There Is No Such Thing as Impact Investing
There is philanthropic investing, and there is commercial investing, and there is nothing in between.
When USAID Shut Down, Its Lessons Nearly Vanished. AI Helped Recover Them
A final sweep of 60 years of evidence reveals durable truths about how development succeeds and fails.