2024 Summer Social Innovation Reading List
Suggested books and articles from SSIR’s editors
Solutions - Articles
Yielding Power to Youth
Making the leap into youth-led advocacy campaigns is a powerful way to walk the talk.
Can Venture Capital Be Optimized for Happiness?
Venture capitalists have profited handsomely from innovative ventures, but value hasn’t always been shared with other stakeholders. What if we developed a new model for measuring the impact of investments?
A New Look at How US Nonprofits Get Really Big
In 2007, we published research analyzing how nonprofits with more than $50 million in annual revenue were funded. Has anything changed?
Measuring the Impact of Training the Trainers: Lessons From Pilots and Plastic Surgeons
How can organizations quantify the impact of the train-the-trainers model? A pioneering new study from a health-care nonprofit offers a template.
Funders Fundraising: A New Philanthropic Trend
More and more funders are adding a feature to their strategy: explicitly soliciting funding from their peers to amplify their own work.
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What Could Go Wrong?
An excerpt from Assembling Tomorrow on looking at the unintended consequence of what you create.
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Corporate Power That Benefits All of Us
Being in business means having a social impact. To build a flourishing nation for all people, we need businesses to take a leadership role.
Plan C for Greening Business
Engaging directly with business was never the environmental movement’s first choice—and for good reason.
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We Need to Diversify Our Innovation Portfolio
An excerpt from Behind the Startup on how venture capital investors set the agenda for innovation