Leadership
SSIR’s 2021 Social Innovation Reading List
Highlights from book excerpts published by SSIR online this year on topics including mutualism, grassroots development, breakthrough ideas, racial injustice, and well-being.
Tag: Grassroots Activism
Advocacy
How the Divestment Movement Wins
Activists use moral analogies with rogue industries and states to stigmatize fossil fuels.
Organizational Development
How Anonymous Self-Organized
The hacktivist collective built a framework to encourage and guide participation without direct oversight.
Nonprofits & NGOs
The Social Sector Needs a Meta Movement
By creating a network of grassroots movements and calling out connections across issues, the social sector can drive demand for solutions and spur policy makers to act.
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Equity in Implementation Science Is Long Overdue
Implementation researchers and practitioners must examine how the field can be truly equitable. A systemic approach offers a path forward.
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Listening to Black Parents
Black children experience racial discrimination in academic environments that actively deplete their self-worth. By accessing the cultural knowledge of Black parents, Village of Wisdom co-designed a liberatory approach to education.
Collaboration
Civic Mobilization Infrastructure in an Age of Existential Threats
Brazilian civil society worked together to win basic income for the poor. Its success illustrates how organizations must interlock to secure rights and push for social change.
Leadership
Voluntarism and Unselfish Leadership
Selfless behavior of key individuals is critical to the development of local institutions for self-governance.
Civic Engagement
What Kinds of Protests Work?
Protest actions seen as extreme and highly disruptive diminish popular support.
Business
Boycotts and Corporate Boards
Social movement boycotts increase board turnover, especially when board members are sympathetic to the cause at issue.