Grassroots Power

By SSIR Editors

Supplement to the article “Empowering Women at the Grassroots.”

Empowering Women at the Grassroots

By Marissa Wesely & Dina Dublon 17

In many parts of the world, corporations today are cultivating partnerships with locally rooted organizations that promote a multi-faceted approach to women’s empowerment. Includes magazine extras.

Disruption for Good

By Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen 4

Rapid advances in technology are changing philanthropy in fundamental ways—making it potentially more rational, effective, collaborative, transparent, and democratic.

Co-Creation in Government

By Francis Gouillart & Tina Hallett 1

Bringing innovation to the public sector is famously difficult. But efforts that open up the public sector value chain to multiple stakeholders can deliver impressive results.

Using Economic Forces to Conserve Nature

By John Reid, Aaron Bruner, & Alfonso Malky 3

Conservationists are devising new ways to strategically use financial incentives—such as conservation easements—to preserve nature.

The Dawn of System Leadership

By Peter Senge, Hal Hamilton & John Kania 34

The deep changes necessary to accelerate progress against society's most intractable problems require someone who catalyzes collective leadership.

Bridge-Building for Social Transformation

By L. David Brown

Well-designed structures of multi-stakeholder collaboration can achieve not just positive impact but long-term, systemic change.

What’s Your Endgame?

By Alice Gugelev & Andrew Stern 6

Nonprofit leaders who ask "How do you scale up?" are most likely posing the wrong question.

The Hidden Pitfalls of Inclusive Innovation

By Raghav Narsalay, Leandro Pongeluppe, & David Light 2

What business leaders need to know to create successful products and services for the poor in emerging markets.

Global Problem Solving Without the Globaloney

By Pankaj Ghemawat 3

It’s time to put an end to the “flat world” thinking that guides the work of all too many social change organizations.