Nonprofit Management
Stories as Data
Are you ignoring your richest intel? How organizations can yield a wealth of valuable data through story-based research.
Tag: Storytelling
Nonprofit Management
Using Story to Solve Social Problems
How narrative intelligence can help everyone design solutions and generate useful data.
Nonprofit Management
Cut to the Chase: How Stories Engage
Three ways organizations can use story as a platform for social innovation.
Social Entrepreneurship
Eight Social Entrepreneurs Tell Their Personal Stories
SSIR editors select eight books by leading social entrepreneurs about their personal journeys along the path to social change.
Social Entrepreneurship
Bay to Bei: Fostering the Tech Ecosystem in Lebanon
Lessons from Silicon Valley on how to establish a business culture that rewards innovation and propels Lebanon into the digital age.
Nonprofit Management
Hearing the Stories within the Stories
It’s easy to revert to big narratives and much harder to let small, surprising, and telling stories emerge.
Nonprofit Management
What Will Replace the Hero’s Journey?
Only by sharing stories of complex protagonists, messy work, and muddled results will the social sector foster understanding and gain support.
Health
Last Mile Gaps in the Affordable Care Act
Three massive and untapped entrepreneurial opportunities.
Nonprofits
It Can Be Smart to Dumb Things Down
Keeping your message simple helps mobilize people in support of your goals.
Human Rights
Labor of Love
Ai-jen Poo, cofounder and director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and 2014 McArthur genius grant recipient, is building a movement to improve the lives of 2.5 million US home care workers.