Social Enterprise
SSIR’s 2023 Social Innovation Reading List
Highlights of this year’s book reviews and excerpts on topics including cities, the imagination, disruption, capitalism, and careers.
New and innovative ideas for leaders of foundations (more)
Highlights of this year’s book reviews and excerpts on topics including cities, the imagination, disruption, capitalism, and careers.
What organizations can do to persevere through resistance.
Innovation stories on leadership, philanthropy, education, gender equity, and grassroots movements that will leave you feeling hopeful.
The Supreme Court’s affirmative action decision highlighted a disconnect between the nonprofit sector’s intentions and its actions.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion are much more than a passing fad. They are a framework for engaging an organization’s full strength.
Too many nonprofits and foundations reject lobbying as dubious. But a new movement is reclaiming this practice as essential for promoting social change.
Moving away from endless problem-solving and toward creating healthy context.
Knowledge of trauma and healing gives funders a way to expand their perspectives, do less harm, and be more effective at systems change.
Ten SSIR articles that examine the growing field of impact investing from a range of perspectives, including investors, philanthropists, nonprofits, researchers, social entrepreneurs, and local communities.
Instead of preparing for the distant future, philanthropy needs to work to prepare for the here and now.