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.
Leadership - Most Popular
Innovative ways to develop strong leadership capabilities (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.
Beware the Perfectly Average Nonprofit
Typical capacity building focuses on fixing nonprofits' weaknesses. It instead should start with the premise that every organization has core strengths on which it can build.
Excerpt
Leading Systems Change
An excerpt from Leading Systems Change explores how to create and sustain community engagement over time.
Podcast
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.
Podcast
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.
Lessons From the Front Line for Nonprofit CEO Successions
Boards typically aren’t prepared to replace their chief executive. But new research shows this doesn’t have to be the case.
Excerpt
The Keys to Nonprofit Management
In this excerpt from the introduction of Nonprofit Management 101, CNN’s Van Jones outlines critical insights into how he finds success in management.
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.
Excerpt
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.