When USAID Shut Down, Its Lessons Nearly Vanished. AI Helped Recover Them
A final sweep of 60 years of evidence reveals durable truths about how development succeeds and fails.
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Innovative ways nonprofits can increase their reach and social impact (more)
Scaling Across Borders by Cocreating With Government
For many social initiatives, achieving transformative impact requires government leadership. Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) Africa has gained important insights about effectively supporting government partners, adapting operations across contexts and borders, and working within existing systems.
The Impact Collaborative
A new nonprofit alliance model shows how previously siloed organizations can collaborate to scale services while retaining autonomy.
Breaking Down Barriers to Mobile Health Care
Scaling mobile health care can address long-standing health-care system distribution and prevention problems in the United States that cost people their lives.
Scaling Community-Grown Solutions
What savings groups can teach the social sector about partnering with governments for systems change.
Laying the Groundwork for Government-Led Poverty Reduction
Four priorities for NGOs turning to local government partnerships in the face of funding cuts to help build lasting, large-scale solutions to poverty.
How NGOs Can Act as Learning Labs for Government
As global aid declines, new learning partnership models between NGOs and government will play a critical role in scaling and sustaining health reform in low- and middle-income countries.
The Parental Difference
A nationwide educational program in Mexico that dispatched mentors to schools succeeded by sparking greater parental involvement.
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Data on Purpose 2025
AI technologies are reshaping society. SSIR brought together 20+ leaders to explore the intersections of AI with civil society, ethics, governance, the public sector, and more.
Helping NGOs and Funders Make the ‘Big Shift’ to Working With Government
The nonprofit sector and its philanthropic supporters still too often overlook the most effective pathway to exponential impact.