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.
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.
In developing economies, the digital health platforms that actually work are not imported. They are built from scratch by the communities they serve.
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.
