Philanthropy & Funding
Does Everything in the Social Sector Need to Scale?
In a world that no longer behaves like a scalable system, success must be something other than growth.
Tag: Social Innovation
Philanthropy & Funding
Tolon’s World
One Kyrgyz entrepreneur had an ambitious vision for transforming his country into a vital, independent nation free from its Soviet past. He reverse-engineered that vision into a stepping-stone strategy that is already having enormous impact in Kyrgyzstan and beyond.
Environment
A World of Innovation
A look at the issues and articles that resonated most with SSIR’s local language edition readers in 2025.
Collaboration
Celebrating Johanna Mair at SSIR
A Q&A about her 15-year tenure as SSIR's academic editor and how the field of social innovation is changing.
sponsored
From Margin to Mainstream: Social Innovation for Systems Change
Embedding social innovation across sectors is how we drive more durable systemic change. Even in the most challenging times, here are three ways to do that.
Excerpt
Scaling
Nine Conditions for Scaling
An excerpt from This Little World: A How-To Guide for Social Innovators on proven strategies for increasing the relative size and scope of a social impact project
Leadership
The Strategic Art of Ambiguity
When the deck is stacked against change, ambiguous actions can change the game.
Health
Making Health Innovations Thrive in Africa
Many hurdles stand in the way of successful innovation. The case of Zipline, an autonomous drone delivery platform, demonstrates many of the pitfalls of the dominant modes of development in Africa, along with some potential solutions.
Leadership
20 Years of SSIR
While the array of media products that SSIR offers has changed over the last 20 years, our mission has not.