Building Capacity for Sustained Collaboration

By Heather McLeod Grant, Kate Wilkinson & Mickey Butts

Foundations helping nonprofits build their capacity to execute sustained collaborations are catalyzing an important shift on the nonprofit landscape and having an outsized impact on the ground.

Creating a University From Scratch

By Ben Nelson, Diana El Azar & Ayo Seligman 2

How Minerva is reimagining higher education now and partnering to scale for impact in the future. Part of the Innovating Higher Education series.

Why Conservation Needs a New Way to Scale

By Steve Rocliffe & Rupert Quinlan 3

Conventional routes to scaling impact don’t always work. Conservation nonprofits and social ventures should be wary of the lure of a large partner and consider replicating from the grassroots instead.

How New Technologies and Alliances Are Transforming Corporate Volunteering

By Greg Baldwin 1

Corporate America has never been more committed to volunteering, but connecting the talent of the private sector with the needs of the social sector—at scale—can’t happen without a network to bring them together. Here is how an unlikely coalition of CSR leaders is opening up closed platforms to create better cross-sector solutions.

Four Mindsets That Accelerate Nonprofit Growth

By Matthew Forti 1

A reflection on how a set of strategies related to target-setting, financial modeling, program measurement, and organizational culture helped one organization reach a major milestone.

Beyond Randomized Controlled Trials

By Iqbal Dhaliwal, John Floretta & Sam Friedlander 1

How the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and the Evidence to Policy (E2P) community are integrating innovation and evidence into social policy and practice at scale.

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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.