Design Thinking
The 10 Most Popular SSIR Articles of 2023
Design thinking, narrative change, AI, impact investing, the future of philanthropy, and more.
Tag: Systems Change
Impact Investing
Systemic Investing for Social Change
To move beyond single-point solutionism, impact investing must use financial capital as both resource and connective tissue.
Education
The Power of Relationships to Transform Systems
Californians for Justice has elevated the power of young people by establishing authentic relationships between them and teachers, educators, and officials. In so doing, it has remade education in the state and crafted a model for broader social change.
Health
Innovating to Address the Systemic Drivers of Health
A new framework for understanding the opportunity for health care innovators to dig deeper.
Philanthropy & Funding
Zero-Problem Philanthropy
Moving away from endless problem-solving and toward creating healthy context.
Philanthropy & Funding
Healing-Centered Funding for Systems Change
Knowledge of trauma and healing gives funders a way to expand their perspectives, do less harm, and be more effective at systems change.
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Education
Change Resistance
An excerpt from The Synthetic University on how mission-driven, market-supported entrepreneurial organizations can transform higher education
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Interview: Dismantling Structural Racism in Health Around the World
Two global health practitioners explore how anti-racist policies and practices in global communities can inform efforts across borders to build a more equitable, healthy world.
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Civic Engagement
Exiting the Fast Lane
Social entrepreneur Sascha Haselmayer argues for slowness as the most effective method for creating lasting social change.
Philanthropy & Funding
Small Organizations: The Change That Systems Change Needs
If funders want “less talk and more walk” in the field of systems change, it’s time they started funding small, locally led organizations.