We Need to Close the Hope Gap
Successful advocacy requires not only increasing support on our issues, but inspiring people to believe that they can win. | This article is free to all readers thanks to sponsorship by BLIS Collective.
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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.
Beyond Direct Provision
To create systemic change in health care for children, advocacy groups need to look to government.
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Food Desert or Food Apartheid?
An excerpt from Hanna Garth's Food Justice Undone on how power dynamics warp progress
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Freedom for Profit?
Stephanie Limoncelli's Advocacy, Inc. argues that the anti-slavery movement's business-friendly orientation impairs its ability to advocate on behalf of workers and exploited victims of trafficking.
Building a Climate-Activist Ecosystem
The Kennedy-backed nonprofit Climate Emergency Fund supports disruptive activism to raise awareness of the climate crisis—and is looking to scale. | Open access to this article for non-subscribers is sponsored by an SSIR supporter.
Making the Case for Equitable Housing
Abundance and justice aren't mutually exclusive. Narrative lessons from three major advocacy movements of recent years.
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.
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.