Civic Engagement
Ensuring That Skilled Volunteers Land with Impact
Without the proper planning, preparation, and long-term thinking, skills-based volunteers and the organizations that sponsor them can easily do more harm than good.
Tag: Socially Responsible Business
Business
The Macro Benefits of Microbusinesses
New recommendations for the very small businesses that help communities prosper.
Environment
10 SSIR Articles on Climate Change Solutions
A collection of our articles highlighting environmental issues and climate change innovation.
Business
Caring for Working Caregivers
Employers must do more to help employees who combine their jobs with taking care of family members and friends.
Impact Investing
Searching for Impact
How search funds, a little-known private equity investment vehicle, can become a useful tool for impact investing.
Technology
The Unexamined Algorithm Is Not Worth Using
Why nonprofits need to evaluate the ethics of their algorithms.
Impact Investing
Sustainable Investments Are Not Always What They Seem
Investors need to better educate themselves about the local context in which their funds are deployed.
Social Enterprise
Do Benefit Corporations Respect Human Rights?
The B Corp movement has pushed a powerful model of socially responsible business that has the potential to advance human rights. But it has so far failed to engage human rights advocates—to its detriment.
Civic Engagement
The Promise of Skills-Based Volunteering
One of the fastest-growing corporate citizenship programs is skills-based volunteering—in which a team of corporate employees works for an extended period of time to help a nonprofit solve a complex operational problem.
Impact Investing
Marginalized Returns
Impact investing has been seduced by a false narrative of combining social impact with financial gains.