Her Library, Their Future
An Indian state's initiative to establish women-run community libraries is giving rural students—especially girls—a safe space to study and access career guidance.
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How Can Schools Best Serve the Common Good?
A conversation with two nationally renowned school superintendents about the biggest challenges they face, the relationship between education and democracy, and the tension between innovation and equity.
SSIR Online, Summer 2026 Issue
What SSIR readers are saying about articles on artificial intelligence, charitable giving, and navigating organizational disagreement.
Fun and Games
Inter-nursing home games in France happen regularly across the country thanks in part to financial support from the National Solidarity Fund for Autonomy, an arm of the country’s social-security system.
Building to Last
We all—editors, writers, and readers alike—are not just students or observers of the world around us but builders of its future.
Why Don’t Philanthropists Build Anymore?
The United States is living through a second Gilded Age. But unlike yesterday's magnates, today's billionaires prefer to write checks to existing organizations. They should instead build institutions that last.
Liquidity Is the Missing Elixir in Impact Investing
Impact strategies must reckon with the problem that capital is frequently trapped in highly illiquid investments with no prospect of exit.
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Education and Its Public Purposes
How schools can support both individual and collective thriving in our democracy.
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Compliance as Resistance
Philanthropic, nonprofit, and civil society organizations that face highly restrictive state policies can leverage compliance to pursue their goals as legalized entities, making them harder to suppress.
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Major Giving Must Be Central
An excerpt from A Better Way to Fundraise on making major giving the operating system for fundraising