Leading Systems Change
An excerpt from Leading Systems Change explores how to create and sustain community engagement over time.
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Innovative ways organizations can work together to increase their overall reach and efficacy (more)
How Philanthropy Can Help Lead on Data Justice
By embracing community-based participatory research and other equity approaches to data, philanthropy can change the game, revitalize research and communities, and realize greater impact.
Getting the Numbers That Matter for Public Policy
Unregistered births and deaths and other failures to officially document people's lives have compromised public policy around the world. Governments, nonprofits, public health groups, and other organizations that play a critical role in civil registration and vital statistics can start improving their efforts with these six insights.
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Storytelling and Social Change
How do stories work to expand and accelerate impact? A roundtable discussion between four storytellers and leaders of change on narrative's power to reach and inspire new audiences.
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The Risk and Rewards of Mergers as a Nonprofit Growth Strategy
For nonprofits that want to grow more than incrementally, mergers present a big opportunity—and big risk.
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Donor-Advised Funds and Community Foundations: What’s Right, What’s Missing, and What’s Next
A conversation on thoughtfully and effectively deploying philanthropic resources with Nicole Taylor, president and CEO of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation; Kim Laughton, president of Schwab Charitable; and Michael Voss, publisher of SSIR. A sponsored podcast developed with the support of DAFgiving360.
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Four Fruits of Disagreement
An excerpt from Why Are We Yelling? explores how we measure the possibilities of security, growth, connection, and enjoyment to orient ourselves in the face of conflict.
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Nonprofit and Government Collaborations Move at the ‘Speed of Trust’
A discussion between two California mayors on how the public sector and nonprofit leaders can work together in a time of anxiety and disruption.
The Community System Solutions Framework
Better ways of describing how coalitions collaborate exist and naming these variations can help guide local leaders and the diverse communities they serve. See SSIR Editor-in-Chief Eric Nee's note about the Winter 2020 issue for additional insights. A feature story from the Winter 2020 issue.
Decriminalizing Mental Illness
The Stepping Up Initiative uses webinars, a tool kit, and data collection to tackle the problem of people with serious mental illness being incarcerated in the United States approximately two million times each year. A Field Report from the Winter 2020 issue.