Stanford University’s Rural Education Action Program has established a one-of-a-kind research collaborative among Chinese, US, and European universities to improve the lot of rural Chinese families. Its success shows the potential of applying scientific methods to development and forging global partnerships for social impact.
Research does no good if its insights are irrelevant or not applied. Ensuring that evidence influences policy requires developing the right ecosystem and levers for accountability.
We created the Democracy Frontlines Fund to enable experienced anti-racist organizers to do their crucial work. They taught us how to do philanthropy better.
Misperception of men’s private beliefs about gender bias can undermine their willingness to speak up against it.
Activists use moral analogies with rogue industries and states to stigmatize fossil fuels.
Partnerships between nonprofit service providers and government agencies to address homelessness are more effective when the former play a leading role.
Ten Global Cities features a range of interventions that can, through dedicated collaboration, provide solutions to homelessness.
Links to all of SSIR's online-only articles published the past three months, with editors' notes about standout pieces on racism, the social economy, grassroots movements, global development, and the climate crisis.
Residential schools were part of a nationwide assimilationist program for First Nations children in Canada. Today, communities are coming to terms with that past.
How one mobile vaccine clinic is tailoring its response to the different populations of unvaccinated and vaccine skeptics.
