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What ‘Good’ Means

By Emily F. Gates & Pablo Vidueira

An excerpt from Evaluative Inquiry for Systemic Change on embedding value into evaluation

A World of Innovation

By SSIR Global Edition Editors

A look at the issues and articles that resonated most with SSIR’s local language edition readers in 2025.

An Opportunity to Build the Ownership Economy

By Marjorie Kelly 1

The time for worker ownership may have finally come.

What Kind of World Is AI Building?

By Jeff de Kleijn & Antoine Fourmont-Fingal 1

The ideologies behind today's most powerful technology

The 10 Most Popular SSIR Articles of 2025

By SSIR Editors

Building collective capacity; AI's power for the greater good; grappling with systems collapse; lessons from collaborative philanthropy; and more.

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A New Story for the Environment

By Nancy J. Manring

An excerpt from A World of Wounds on finding a new way to heal

When USAID Shut Down, Its Lessons Nearly Vanished. AI Helped Recover Them

By Lindsey Moore 7

A final sweep of 60 years of evidence reveals durable truths about how development succeeds and fails.

SSIR Online, Winter 2026 Issue

By SSIR Editors

What SSIR readers are saying about articles on impact accounting's equity problem, leadership that meets the moment, and better strategies for board recruitment.

Education’s Civic Dividend

By Rahul Pachori & Neha Dhaka

The social returns of investments in education too often go unmeasured and undervalued.

Coping With Mental Illness at Work

By Chana R. Schoenberger

Employees experiencing mental illness successfully manage their symptoms by disengaging from some aspects of their jobs and engaging in others.