The Next Chapter in Design for Social Innovation

By Jocelyn Wyatt, Tim Brown & Shauna Carey 1

To address more complex social challenges, design thinking must become radically more collaborative and oriented toward systems change.

A Nonprofit Networked Platform for Global Health

By Tamara Kay & Jason Spicer

Project ECHO developed a revolutionary model for helping doctors and clinicians in New Mexico to treat hepatitis C. It spread around the world to address numerous chronic diseases. With the COVID-19 pandemic, it found its moment.

Moving Closer to the Problem and Closer to the Solution

By Tara Loyd 7

Lessons learned when PIVOT shifted its center of gravity from the United States to Madagascar by letting go of the majority of its US-based team.

SSIR Online, Winter 2021 Issue

By SSIR Editors

Links to all of SSIR's online-only articles published the past three months, with editors' notes about standout pieces on menstrual health, virtual events, and the downside to an overly positive organizational culture.

Nonprofits, It’s Time to Own Your Social Media Audience

By Spencer Brooks 1

A call for organizations to mitigate the risk of change in the social media landscape by strategically decoupling themselves from platforms that are causing harm.

Using Six Conceptualizations of Capital to Help Achieve the SDGs

By Duane Rollins & Elizabeth Castillo

By abandoning a narrow understanding of capital as just assets that appear on a balance sheet, businesses and other organizations can harness the value of their people, relationships, knowledge, and processes to move the world closer to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

Rediscovering Fixed Amount Awards

By Jonathan Ng & Samuel Jack 1

With pending changes to the federal grantmaking regulations promoting results-oriented accountability, now is a good time for grant makers and grantees to see how using fixed amount awards can promote performance over compliance.

Membership Programs for Nonprofits

By Fabian Farkas, Shikha Jain & Ruben de Lange 2

What NGOs can learn from the private sector about increasing earned income for sustainable recurring growth.

Rehumanizing Fundraising With Artificial Intelligence

By Allison Fine & Beth Kanter 3

As nonprofits emerge from the shock of the pandemic and financial crisis, there is an opportunity to rethink fundraising and improve donor retention rates by embracing emerging technologies like artificial intelligence.

Nowhere to Grow

By Kevin Starr & Sarah Miers 17

The systematic scale-up of social entrepreneurs’ solutions by Big International NGOs (BINGOs) is simply not a thing. Why not?