How to Transition Your Investment Portfolio Toward Impact
A review of dozens of case studies, industry reports, and discussions reveals important insights into impact investing from innovators and early adopters.
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The Downside of Social Impact Bonds
After more than three years researching social impact bonds, a filmmaker argues we need to consider the ways they might be doing more harm than good.
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A Hippocratic Oath for Our Digital Lives
The social sector has an opportunity to create digital spaces that give people a meaningful role in shaping a collective future.
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How to Push DEI Conversations Out of the Comfort Zone
As we work to advance racial equity in philanthropy, four practices can help us achieve changes that are truly transformative. This is the third of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Women and the Future of Work
The strategies companies and policy makers are designing to address the changing nature of work need to include a gender lens if they are to help foster the economic empowerment of women.
Three Cheers for Regulation
During the Industrial Revolution, labor organizations, social movements, the media, and government came together to rein in big business, providing lessons on how to regulate firms of today like Facebook, Amazon, and Google, writes SSIR's editor-in-chief in an introduction to the Summer 2019 issue.
When Aid Fails
The citizen journalism effort What Went Wrong? examines international development projects with the help of reports from people the project was supposed to benefit. A What's Next article from the Summer 2019 issue.
A Moonshot to Restore Artic Ice
The nonprofit is developing a solution to restore and preserve Arctic sea ice by spreading sandlike silica microspheres in strategic locations to reflect sunlight and heat. From the Summer 2019 issue.
New Alliances for Human Rights
PROVEA is spreading the word about Venezuela’s political and economic crisis while building alliances in neighboring countries. From the What's Next department of the Summer 2019 issue.