Human Rights
Advocating for Age in an Age of Uncertainty
How the COVID-19 crisis is amplifying ageism, and how advocates can push back.
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Leadership
Leading a Global Team Through Crisis Means Focusing on Local Details
Three steps every global organization should take to care for staff, and build resilience during COVID-19 and beyond. Part of a series on civil society's response to the pandemic.
Leadership
Leading During and After a Crisis
Our mission is to find and publish articles by leading thinkers and doers that provide insight on important issues and challenges that social sector leaders must deal with continually. As it turns out, some of these eternal topics are essential now. The Editor's Note from the Summer 2020 issue.
Philanthropy & Funding
How Foundations Can Make Progress on Long-Term Social Change Amid the COVID-19 Crisis
Amid foundations' necessary and immediate responses to the COVID-19 crisis, there are unusual opportunities to advance their long-term goals of building more just and equitable societies.
Philanthropy & Funding
How Funders Can Help Save an Economic Engine of the Developing World
The COVID-19 crisis is threatening small and growing businesses in low-income nations and the capacity development organizations (CDOs) they depend upon. Helping CDOs overcome three types of financial challenges is critical to responding to the current and coming economic devastation.
Nonprofits & NGOs
How One National Nonprofit Is Adapting to COVID-19
Lessons learned at Friends of the Children about maintaining stability in service during this crisis and the next one.
Health
The Cultural and Social Challenges to Slowing the Pandemic in Africa
The coronavirus was slow to make its way to Africa, but it is now there in full force and will be difficult to contain because of certain cultural and social behaviors.
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Click Here: Inoculation, Time, and Rent Strikes
In this week's links from SSIR's editors: the race for a coronavirus vaccine, science fiction, the demise of a beloved restaurant, and rent strikes.
Technology
Countering Coronavirus With Open Social Innovation
Germany’s first government-hosted crisis hackathon offers seven lessons on how to make the most of a messy-but-promising way to kick-start social innovation.
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Click Here: New Normals During and After COVID-19
Links from SSIR's editors to interesting news, essays, tweets, research, videos, podcasts, and more.