Collaboration
Cultivating Change Amidst Collapse
To meet the magnitude of this moment we must work collaboratively in ways that promote decentralization over top-down hierarchies, relationships over transactions, and emergence over control.
Tag: Climate Change
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Business
How Private Sector Leadership Can Fight the Biodiversity Crisis
An excerpt from Strategic Corporate Conservation Planning details the efforts of companies, governments, and communities to remediate polluted lands.
Social Enterprise
Farm to Table Corals
Over the last 30 years, half of all coral reefs have died, threatening marine species and people's livelihoods. To reverse this trend, Coral Vita uses a pioneering technique to grow coral in land-based farms up to 50 times faster than they grow naturally. A What's Next article from the Summer 2020 issue.
Business
The Dawn of Responsible Finance
Since the Great Recession, leaders in finance and investing have aimed to make their industries more equitable, sustainable, and socially productive. Has the fight for financial reform found its moment amid the economic crisis sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic? A Case Study in the Summer 2020 issue.
Food
Building Investor Appetite for Nutritious Food
Increasing access to quality food worldwide requires money from investors for food-related enterprises. Blended finance can help boost their risk tolerance. A Viewpoint from the Summer 2020 issue.
Water & Sanitation
The United States Needs Its Own WASH Sector
Water, sanitation, and hygiene projects are not just for low-income countries overseas. They are also desperately needed at home. A Viewpoint from the Summer 2020 issue.
Environment
Climate Refugees
Donors and volunteers alike understand that humans are not the only refugees from the growing climate crisis. The Last Look from the Summer 2020 issue.
Education
Crisis and Adaptation for the Public Good
How Tulane University rebuilt from Hurricane Katrina with a renewed commitment to embedding social innovation and community engagement at the core of its mission. Part of Innovating Higher Education for the Greater Good, a new series from SSIR and Ashoka U.
Scaling
Why Conservation Needs a New Way to Scale
Conventional routes to scaling impact don’t always work. Conservation nonprofits and social ventures should be wary of the lure of a large partner and consider replicating from the grassroots instead.
Environment
SSIR Guide to Taking On Climate Change
With temperatures in Antarctica reaching record highs and new calls to respond to the intensifying climate crisis, social change leaders can improve their work on environmental issues with the insights from these 10 articles.