How Business Can Engage Men as Allies for Gender Equality

By Alice Allan, Marianne Cooper, Pamela Cornes & Fabio Verani 2

Businesses can help advance gender equality by shifting individual behavior, committing to inclusive organizations, and using their external influence to shape new social norms.

Government

More Seats at the Table

By Katey Lauer & Stephen Smith

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.

Collaboration

On Hiatus: Call for Submissions to SSIR Series on Social Change in an Era of Extreme Polarization

By SSIR Editors

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

By Jeremy Avins & Nathan Huttner 1

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.

A ‘Balancing Test’ for Foundation Spending

By Dimple Abichandani 10

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.

Lessons From the Front Line for Nonprofit CEO Successions

By Gali Cooks & Eben Harrell

Boards typically aren’t prepared to replace their chief executive. But new research shows this doesn’t have to be the case.

New Year’s Resolutions for Leaders of Social Change

By SSIR Editors

A list of SSIR articles to help your team define and achieve its goals for doing better in 2020.