Deep Listening for Impact Measurement
How AI-driven text and voice analysis can transform impact investing strategies.
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Innovations in technology that serve the world (more)
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.
Knowledge Is Human
Why building a trusted information ecosystem requires building a community.
Cool Carts
Cooling innovation helps food hawkers who cannot afford conventional refrigeration.
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Server Farm
We must turn to the nonhuman intelligence all around us to articulate a framework for ethical and regenerative life.
AI for Social Good
We need rigorous impact evaluations of AI in the social sector to ensure that it promotes social welfare.
SSIR Online, Winter 2025 Issue
A collection of standout pieces published online about strategic philanthropy, strengthening global democracy, crisis planning, and nonprofits leveraging AI innovations
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Praying for Rain
An excerpt from How to Think About Progress on the perils of technological futurism
Inclusivity in Generative AI Should Be an Attribute, Not an Add-On
With gen AI support, humanoid robots can help people with disabilities conquer long-standing barriers to inclusivity and independence in the workplace and beyond. If, that is, their design mirrors the inclusivity they are built to provide.
Combining AI Breakthroughs and Better Policy to Defeat Superbugs
Superbugs may have met their match in generative AI, but to fully tackle the crisis of antimicrobial resistance, policy makers need to find new ways to help scientists and researchers overcome long-standing obstacles and revitalize a broken antibiotic market.