Civic Engagement
SSIR Guide to Voting, Civic Engagement, and Repairing Democracy
Articles on getting voters to the polls and fixing American democracy ahead of a presidential election that is shaping up to be one of the most contentious ever.
Tag: Elections
Civic Engagement
Healing Our Health System, One Vote at a Time
How the work of bringing voter registration kiosks into emergency rooms has become more urgent—and more difficult—during the COVID-19 pandemic, and also expanded in scope. Part of a series on civil society's response to the pandemic.
Advocacy
Nonprofit Advocacy and Democracy
Charitable organizations have become political intermediaries for corporations and other powerful interests. A research article in the Summer 2020 issue.
Civic Engagement
Philanthropy and the Future of Local News
How foundations, journalists, and community organizers in New Jersey passed the nation’s first civic information bill.
Government
More Seats at the Table
How the West Virginia Can’t Wait movement is using a gubernatorial race as a platform to raise up new leaders for the future, win or lose.
Advocacy
SSIR Guide to Influencing Public Policy
A list of SSIR articles to help nonprofits, advocates, and other civil society organizations build support for addressing the social issues brought to the fore by the 2020 US presidential election cycle.
Human Rights
New Alliances for Human Rights
PROVEA is spreading the word about Venezuela’s political and economic crisis while building alliances in neighboring countries. From the What's Next department of the Summer 2019 issue.
Civic Engagement
Funders Can Bolster Democracy by Supporting Census Tech
Local governments and philanthropy are missing out on one of the biggest opportunities to positively affect the census: supporting the application of modern technology to increase the chances of a more complete count.
Nonprofits & NGOs
The 10 Most Popular SSIR Articles of 2018
Highlights from the magazine and website.
Podcast
Technology
The Tenuous Relationship Between Technology and Social Innovation
Rob Reich, a Marc and Laura Andreessen faculty co-director of Stanford PACS, moderates a conversation about the promise and peril of technology in civil society. Reich is joined by Kelly Born, a program manager at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation’s Madison Initiative, and Arisha Hatch, managing director of campaigns at Color of Change.