Government
More Seats at the Table
How the West Virginia Can’t Wait movement is using a gubernatorial race as a platform to raise up new leaders for the future, win or lose.
Governance - Most Popular
New ideas for building stronger, more engaged boards of directors and other governing bodies (more)
Collaboration
On Hiatus: Call for Submissions to SSIR Series on Social Change in an Era of Extreme Polarization
In response to the coronavirus epidemic, SSIR has temporarily halted seeking submissions for a series on extreme polarization and how it affects civil society's efforts to solve social problems, and how to build collaborations, communicate with the public, and manage conflict in a divided world.
Philanthropy & Funding
A ‘Balancing Test’ for Foundation Spending
Instead of plugging numbers into a traditional formula, taking another look at foundation spending policies is an opportunity for an engaged board to grapple with central strategic questions.
Nonprofits & NGOs
New Year’s Resolutions for Leaders of Social Change
A list of SSIR articles to help your team define and achieve its goals for doing better in 2020.
Philanthropy & Funding
Grantmaking in the #MeToo Era
What is the role of funders in responding to abuses alleged within the organizations we support?
sponsored
Reclaiming Civil Society
Organizers renew democracy by building the capacity it requires. Part of the Winter 2020 issue's Realizing Democracy supplement funded by the Ford Foundation.
sponsored
Revitalizing People-Based Government
Recent research documents only a weak electoral connection between state legislators and their voters. It's time to break the cycle and restore political power to ordinary citizens over entrenched minorities. Part of the Winter 2020 issue's Realizing Democracy supplement funded by the Ford Foundation.
Review
Government
Beyond Privatization
In their new book, Ganesh Sitaraman and Anne Alstott treat libraries as just one model of a public institution that can thrive alongside market-based options like bookstores and provide desirable benefits to society more broadly and equitably than the private sector can do alone. A book review from the Winter 2020 issue.
Education
What US Schools Can Learn From Finland’s Approach to Education
Four strategies for creating a positive school culture that focuses on the whole student and fosters long-term, holistic well-being.
Collaboration
Becoming Unstuck With Relational Activism
At a time when division seems like the only thing we all have in common, two “relational activists” describe how building person-to-person connections can keep us from being paralyzed by recalcitrant and complex social problems.