Conventional needs-based development policies can be harmful to informal businesses. Instead, development professionals must embrace an asset-based approach, identifying how existing collective solutions foster business resilience. | Open-access to this article made possible by the Concordia University Research Chair in Resilience and Institutions, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University.
Collaborative funding models must reach beyond initial funding to build long-term strategies for sustainability, growth, and impact.
The Icelandic startup Melta transforms community food waste into fertilizer, with the goal of cutting emissions and promoting sustainable farming in Iceland.
Working with governments to co-create programs and funding strategies can unlock resources far beyond what any single organization can do on its own.
Private-sector capital must be brought to the table in a more deliberate way to catalyze social innovation.
Ukrainian civil society is training both civilians and military on first aid and emergency medical response.
Research demonstrates that social enterprises are political actors that seek to influence public policy and sociocultural norms.
In Terrible Beauty, Auden Schendler argues that by focusing on incremental rather than systemic change, the corporate sustainability movement has played into the fossil-fuel industry’s hands.
SSIR’s new issue delves into ownership in both the straightforward and metaphorical senses and how the idea grounds a community and provides a source of systemic change.
