Government
More Seats at the Table
How the West Virginia Can’t Wait movement is using a gubernatorial race as a platform to raise up new leaders for the future, win or lose.
Tag: Polarization
Collaboration
On Hiatus: Call for Submissions to SSIR Series on Social Change in an Era of Extreme Polarization
In response to the coronavirus epidemic, SSIR has temporarily halted seeking submissions for a series on extreme polarization and how it affects civil society's efforts to solve social problems, and how to build collaborations, communicate with the public, and manage conflict in a divided world.
Excerpt
Collaboration
Four Fruits of Disagreement
An excerpt from Why Are We Yelling? explores how we measure the possibilities of security, growth, connection, and enjoyment to orient ourselves in the face of conflict.
sponsored
Realizing Democracy
As long as it is more profitable to rig the rules than play by them, our better angels are unlikely to thrive. Part of the Winter 2020 issue's Realizing Democracy supplement funded by the Ford Foundation.
Collaboration
Becoming Unstuck With Relational Activism
At a time when division seems like the only thing we all have in common, two “relational activists” describe how building person-to-person connections can keep us from being paralyzed by recalcitrant and complex social problems.
Civic Engagement
The Speed of Trust in an Anxious Era: Recap of the 2019 Nonprofit Management Institute
At SSIR’s 2019 Nonprofit Management Institute, presenters and participants addressed the economic and emotional anxieties facing civil society leaders and shared advice for moving forward with confidence.
Review
Technology
History’s Tech Lessons
Economist Carl Benedikt Frey offers a refreshingly human-centered analysis of technological progress in The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation. A book review from the Fall 2019 issue.
Advocacy
Getting Political Is Good for Everyone
Nonprofits that engage in political activity benefit themselves, those they serve, and the political system as a whole.
Excerpt
Business
How Social Innovation Can Fight Terrorism
An excerpt from Compassionate Counterterrorism highlights development-based interventions that have deterred terrorist recruitment.
Governance
Six Ways to Repair Declining Social Trust
We must take proactive and preventive steps to restore trust across government, business, and civic institutions, or societies around the world may be at greater risk of chaos and conflict.