Impact Investing
Liquidity Is the Missing Elixir in Impact Investing
Impact strategies must reckon with the problem that capital is frequently trapped in highly illiquid investments with no prospect of exit.
Tag: Climate Change
Philanthropy & Funding
Does Everything in the Social Sector Need to Scale?
In a world that no longer behaves like a scalable system, success must be something other than growth.
Advocacy
Building a Climate-Activist Ecosystem
The Kennedy-backed nonprofit Climate Emergency Fund supports disruptive activism to raise awareness of the climate crisis—and is looking to scale. | Open access to this article for non-subscribers is sponsored by an SSIR supporter.
Excerpt
Environment
Grief Is a Gift
An excerpt from Tom Chi’s Climate Capital on building forward for the future we need.
Environment
Climate Adaptation Means Building Social Infrastructure
Resilience to climate change is less about building walls than cultivating the social capacities for people to navigate uncertainty with agency, solidarity, and security.
Cities
SSIR’s 2025 Social Innovation Reading List
Highlights of this year’s book reviews and excerpts on topics including gun violence prevention, cash transfers, refugees, regenerative agriculture, adapting to climate change, reinventing solidarity, and more.
Environment
A World of Innovation
A look at the issues and articles that resonated most with SSIR’s local language edition readers in 2025.
Excerpt
Environment
A New Story for the Environment
An excerpt from A World of Wounds on finding a new way to heal
Civic Engagement
Blinking Red
Street performances by the Red Rebel Brigade spotlight the global environmental crisis and humanity's response.
Environment
Business Won’t Save Nature (Until Governments Change the Rules of the Game)
If private finance is to shoulder the burden for nature conservation, government has to create the necessary incentive structure.