SSIR Online, Fall 2025 Issue
A collection of standout pieces published online about handling systems collapse, measuring narrative change, and helping NGOs shift to working with government.
Social Enterprise - Most Popular
Innovative ways that organizations are using and adapting business strategies to advance social and environmental well-being (more)
Shelter From the Storm
As an ideas magazine, SSIR offers a sanctuary for deep thinking on the issues of our time, including President Donald Trump's attempts to disrupt the social sector in ways that will be felt for years.
Iraq’s Activist Entrepreneurs
A grassroots collective of Iraqi entrepreneurs softened their ambitions when faced with funding shortfalls and corporate offers.
Translating Social Enterprises
China took a pragmatic approach to adopting social enterprises as a new organizational form.
Impact Accounting Has an Equity Problem
Is water in Sweden really 25 times more valuable than water in Mauritania?
The Future of Innovation Is Collective
The world is undergoing simultaneous economic, technological, geopolitical, environmental, and social changes that organizations cannot address alone. Only a collective approach to social innovation can solve for challenges that are too large for individual organizations.
The Power of Social Procurement
The hospitality sector can better serve its customers and communities if it rethinks how it procures goods and services.
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The Next Generation of Mutualism
An ecosystem approach to investing in and supporting mutualist enterprises—from the ground up.
Continuous Transformation to Serve the Mission
Forty years ago, FUNDES launched to serve small enterprises in Latin America. The organization had to reinvent itself many times to survive but continues to support the region’s economic and social development. | Open access to this article made possible by the University of Geneva