Articles on social change from the latest edition of SSIR
Read about the need for a new civic architecture for learning that transcends school-based teaching; how new financial models are helping renters build wealth; why trust-based recovery efforts in Appalachia after Hurricane Helene offer a road map for communities with underdeveloped infrastructure; how the Southland Development Authority is revitalizing the Rust Belt region south of Chicago; and other topics in the Fall 2026 issue of Stanford Social Innovation Review.
School-based models for developing talent won't provide the skillful, resilient people every society will need going forward. We need to build civic architecture for recognizing learning whenever and wherever it occurs: at home, at play, in community, and especially at work.
For nearly a century, US policy prioritized homeownership to build middle-class wealth—leaving many renters behind. But innovative new renter-wealth models are enabling renters to access the American dream.
Appalachia's trust-based recovery from climate disaster offers a vision of the future and a road map to follow, for anywhere in the world where underdeveloped infrastructure is exposed to climate volatility.
Deindustrialization hit Chicago's south suburbs hard. Can the Southland Development Authority breathe new life into the area and promote a template for reviving regions?
University of the People offers quality higher education online for free to anyone anywhere in the world.
Health-climate warning labels at gas pumps are gaining political momentum as research shows they can shift consumer attitudes away from fossil fuels.
A theater director transformed an abandoned newsstand into a radically new theatrical experience that is helping to revive the historic center of a Southern Italian town.
Airbnb.org, the nonprofit arm of the homestay-platform company, is providing short-term homes to families in crisis, first responders, and medical patients worldwide.
The many discoveries from education research aren't making it to the classroom. It should follow the medical model of building infrastructure to translate research into impact.
Conflict is inevitable in any organization. The question for the nonprofit sector and its supporters is how to structure it in ways that strengthen communities.
Due to regulatory complexity, the charitable deduction has become a mirage. Only through careful planning can donors optimize their giving.
In developing economies, the digital health platforms that actually work are not imported. They are built from scratch by the communities they serve.
Men at high risk of violence interpret situations in ways that justify their violent response. Cognitive behavioral therapy can help.
Singapore has more legally permissive rules than Taiwan on organ donation consent, but Taiwan has greater donation rates because of the infrastructure of consent that its medical system has built.
French profit-sharing rules improve the pay of lower-skilled workers without affecting the growth or productivity of firms.
Seeing an AI disclosure on a social post leads users to disengage, because they feel the creator spent less effort on making it.
In The Common Good Economy, Mariana Mazzucato is clear-eyed on where we need to go, but the next step is understanding the power structures that prevent us from getting there.
John Washington’s How to Close a Camp explores the contemporary growth of immigrant detainment facilities under the Trump administration but argues that entrenched political failures are what makes them possible and what must be addressed.
There's validity to the common explanations for the "vibecession," but articles in this issue go deeper into the longer-term loss of agency, growing disbelief in upward mobility, and instability at the root of many people's lives.
What SSIR readers are saying about articles on billionaires and their philanthropy.
Rodgers Oloo Magutha, 28, has become a local celebrity for rescuing and rehabilitating injured and orphaned wild birds in his one-room apartment in Nairobi.
