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.
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.
Under the broad umbrella of “the social economy,” research has a major role to play in helping us better understand the strengths and weaknesses of multiple forms of social entrepreneurship.
Investors and policy makers who want to advance impact investing in Europe need to account for the field's different levels of maturity in national, subnational, and municipal markets. Part of the Impact Investing Today and Tomorrow in-depth series.
To meet the magnitude of this moment we must work collaboratively in ways that promote decentralization over top-down hierarchies, relationships over transactions, and emergence over control.
Better ways of describing how coalitions collaborate exist and naming these variations can help guide local leaders and the diverse communities they serve. See SSIR Editor-in-Chief Eric Nee's note about the Winter 2020 issue for additional insights. A feature story from the Winter 2020 issue.
Going beyond traditional monitoring and evaluation to focus on feedback can lead to new innovations in the social sector.
As more cross-sector collaborations gain traction, we must understand what it takes to keep them running over the long term and ensure that progress continues despite changes in leadership.
Most models for developing networks for collaboration emphasize discovering or clarifying purpose as the first step. But purpose doesn’t always have to manifest in the form of a single vision or strategic plan shared among all participants.