Catalyzing Women of Color’s Business Potential
The social enterprise digitalundivided is disrupting the startup world for black and Latinx women entrepreneurs. A Field Report from the Spring 2020 issue.
Social Enterprise - Most Popular
Innovative ways that organizations are using and adapting business strategies to advance social and environmental well-being (more)
Flushing Taboo
The biggest obstacle to eradicating India’s sanitation problem is a social tradition based in its caste system. A Field Report from the Spring 2020 issue.
Using Gift Card Breakage to Democratize Philanthropy
Repurposing unused gift cards for charity could harness untapped billions of dollars for social good and turn consumers into micro-philanthropists. A Viewpoint from the Spring 2020 issue.
Collaboration
On Hiatus: Call for Submissions to SSIR Series on Social Change in an Era of Extreme Polarization
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.
Podcast
Scaling and Innovation
If an organization doesn't know how to learn or scale, innovation isn't the answer to its struggles.
Podcast
Philanthropy & Funding
Addressing Equity and Social Change Through Corporate and Individual Philanthropy
Give big, give now, give smart, and give to address inequity: a conversation on making the most of your generosity with Jeff Raikes, cofounder of the Raikes Foundation; Fred Kaynor, vice president of business development and marketing at Schwab Charitable; and Michael Voss, publisher of SSIR. A sponsored podcast developed with the support of DAFgiving360.
Big Enough. Simple Enough. Cheap Enough.
Daunting social problems need scalable solutions. Here’s how to know if you’ve got one.
Paying With Plastic
The Recycle Pay program allows parents to pay a portion or all of their children’s school fees by gathering plastic and discarded drinking-water bags, which are then recycled. A What's Next article from the Winter 2020 issue.
Using Measurement to Manage Impact
How investors can generate deeper insights into social and environmental impact while bringing concrete business benefits to investees.
Excerpt
Social-Symbolic Work and Social Innovation
An excerpt from Constructing Organizational Life examines self work, organization work, and institutional work within the context of social innovation.