Deep Listening for Impact Measurement

By Sushant Kumar, Sarvesh Kanodia, Daryl Collins & Rohini Roy

How AI-driven text and voice analysis can transform impact investing strategies.

Need a Lift? 13 Stories That Inspired Us in 2024

By SSIR Editors

Innovation stories on social connection, empowering youth, and revitalizing green spaces offer some year-end inspiration.

De-Risking Press Freedom

By Patrice Schneider

How to fund, protect, and grow public interest information.

Brewing Fertilizer From Food Waste

By Robyn Huang

The Icelandic startup Melta transforms community food waste into fertilizer, with the goal of cutting emissions and promoting sustainable farming in Iceland.

How Social Enterprises Advocate

By Chana R. Schoenberger

Research demonstrates that social enterprises are political actors that seek to influence public policy and sociocultural norms.

Ownership and Equity

By David V. Johnson

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.

CDFIs Transform Rural Economies. We Just Need to Get Them There.

By Jerry Kenney, Ines Polonius & Gustavo Lasala

A budding success story in East Texas offers lessons for other underserved rural regions, philanthropies interested in rural revitalization, and CDFIs pursuing pathways to better engage and serve rural communities.

Small Firms Are Still a Big Missed Opportunity in Development Philanthropy

By Radha Rajkotia, Elizabeth Brown & Allison J. Anderson 1

There are many reasons why philanthropists still haven’t supported SMEs at the scale we need. They need to get over it; the opportunity to leverage impact is enormous.

Combining AI Breakthroughs and Better Policy to Defeat Superbugs

By Akhila Kosaraju

Superbugs may have met their match in generative AI, but to fully tackle the crisis of antimicrobial resistance, policy makers need to find new ways to help scientists and researchers overcome long-standing obstacles and revitalize a broken antibiotic market.

Making Health Innovations Thrive in Africa

By Christian Seelos, Miki Sofer, Caitlin Burton & Johanna Mair

Many hurdles stand in the way of successful innovation. The case of Zipline, an autonomous drone delivery platform, demonstrates many of the pitfalls of the dominant modes of development in Africa, along with some potential solutions.