Partnerships

A 1970s partnership between wealthy white liberals and black activists illustrates the tensions of race and power in philanthropy. A Research article from the Fall 2019 issue.

Social Enterprise

The Many Roads to Revenue Generation

By Marya Besharov, Jean-Baptiste Litrico & Susanna Kislenko

Nonprofits that wish to integrate revenue-generating activities into their operations must think strategically about who will benefit from them and how they will further their social mission. A feature story from the Fall 2019 issue.

Measurement & Evaluation

A New Accounting System Is Possible

By Sara Olsen, Clara Miller & Coauthors 4

Companies, investors, and consumers need an expanded set of metrics that more broadly and accurately measure risk, return, and value. A Viewpoint from the Fall 2019 issue.

Collaboration

How Researchers Should Partner With Governments

By Gautam Patel 1

I have been both a government official and a policy researcher in India. I know from experience that researchers need to adjust to the needs of government field staffers to succeed. A Viewpoint from the Fall 2019 issue.

Social Services

Inside Switzerland’s Radical Drug Policy Innovation

By Miriam Wolf & Michael Herzig

A look at how Switzerland radically and successfully changed its approach to drug policy following a heroin epidemic in the late 1980s and 90s, and what the effort teaches us about the social innovation process.

Human Rights

How Reverse Mentoring Can Lead to More Equitable Workplaces

By Sharlene Gandhi 2

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.

Philanthropy & Funding

How Philanthropic Collaborations Succeed, and Why They Fail

By Alison Powell, Susan Wolf Ditkoff & Fay Twersky

Funders need to push past politeness and hammer out expectations for how their collective action will create value—for beneficiaries, grantees, and themselves—beyond what they could do alone.