Nonprofits & NGOs
The 10 Most Popular SSIR Articles of 2019
Highlights from the magazine and website.
Tag: Inclusion
Human Rights
How Reverse Mentoring Can Lead to More Equitable Workplaces
In response to a July 16 article about improving organizations' DEI efforts by reimagining the roles of mentor and mentee, SSIR reader Yen Ooi wrote that “calling it 'reverse mentoring' might set out the wrong impression in the relationship to start with.” What do you think? This is the final of 10 articles in a special DEI series.
Human Rights
Reimagining the Internship to Promote Racial Equity
DEI efforts should develop and maximize the potential impact of this important but often overlooked position. This is the ninth of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Health
Four Global Lessons From Locally Driven DEI Efforts
In order to change the odds for marginalized children, social organizations must root their racial equity work in a commitment to learn from and be led by those who have experienced inequity themselves. This is the eighth of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Health
Advancing Equity in Health Systems by Addressing Racial Justice
Lessons on racial equity underscore the need to set explicit aims, build coalitions, and flatten hierarchies in order to strengthen healthcare’s role in undoing systems of oppression. This is the seventh of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Human Rights
The Bias of ‘Professionalism’ Standards
Professionalism has become coded language for white favoritism in workplace practices that more often than not leave behind people of color. This is the fourth of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Human Rights
‘Checkbox Diversity’ Must Be Left Behind for DEI Efforts to Succeed
DEI efforts need to account for hegemony, marginalization, and the creation of sustainable shifts in power. This is the second of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Human Rights
Social Innovation Alone Can’t Solve Racial Inequity
Three insights offer organizations opportunities to cultivate durable solutions to the underlying causes of racial inequity. This is the first of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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Business
How Social Innovation Can Fight Terrorism
An excerpt from Compassionate Counterterrorism highlights development-based interventions that have deterred terrorist recruitment.
Design Thinking
How to Make Design Thinking More Disability Inclusive
A three-tiered framework for making human-centered design more inclusive of people with disabilities can help organizations improve their own programs.