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Embracing Collective Impact at United Way
Four leaders of United Ways across the United States discuss shifting their roles from funders to true partners in collective impact efforts.
Four leaders of United Ways across the United States discuss shifting their roles from funders to true partners in collective impact efforts.
As state and local governments in the United States start spending the largest infusion of direct federal funding in history, they should make sure they aren’t investing in systems that increase inequity.
Social innovation separated old from young, sowing disconnection and discontent. Here’s how we can come together again.
For social businesses to survive and thrive, we must change the broader business ecosystem's legal structures, sustainability metrics, accountability systems, and funding opportunities.
Despite the poverty rate being significantly higher in rural America, philanthropists continue to pour money into urban areas.
Links to all of SSIR's online-only articles published the past three months, with editors' notes about standout pieces on design thinking, foundation spending, and rebuilding US democracy.
For all the glowing press that unconditional cash transfers (UCT) have gotten, cash is still a long way from living up to the hype and transforming the development sector.
To truly advance racial justice, funders must share decision-making power over who receives capital with the communities they hope to serve.
There will be future crises that are as compelling as the ones we are going through today, and philanthropy must be ready to respond. This essay, by the author of the keystone article in the series on foundations' payouts during crises, is a response to the views of nine other commentators.
Larry Kramer’s call for rigorous, evidence-based analysis on payout rates is responsible and leaves room for different approaches. This essay is a response to the keystone article in the Up for Debate series on foundations' payouts during big crises. Visit the series page for more reaction pieces like this one.