Climate Change

How we frame social issues profoundly influences our understanding of them, and how we think and talk about solutions.

Early, Patient, Nimble Philanthropy Can Make or Break Public-Private Partnerships

A look at how private long-term investment can help spur public engagement—and lead to policy change and impact—in environmental conservation and beyond.

6 SSIR Articles on Business Sustainability

By Madeline Musante

A reading list of our articles examining how businesses should define and achieve sustainability.

The Next Phase of Business Sustainability

By Andrew J. Hoffman 23

The era of corporations integrating sustainable practices is being surpassed by a new age of corporations actively transforming the market to make it more sustainable. Open access to this article is made possible by The Regents of the University of Michigan on behalf of the Erb Institute.

Advocacy

Four Strategies for Large Systems Change

By Steve Waddell 6

To create systems of societal change, we need to become clearer about the archetypes of societal change strategies, their strengths and weaknesses, and their interactions.

Philanthropy & Funding

The Civic Science Imperative

By Elizabeth Good Christopherson, Dietram A. Scheufele & Brooke Smith

Philanthropy has a vital role to play in building a culture of “civic science,” in which scientists take active roles as citizens and citizens engage with scientific research. | Open access to this article made possible by the Rita Allen Foundation