What’s in a Name? The Ethics of Building Naming Gifts
Is it possible for modern capital fundraising to be grounded in socially just principles?
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Metro Rail Comes to Hyderabad
One of India’s largest cities launched the world’s biggest public-private partnership metro rail project to construct essential public transit for its bustling metropolis. Its leaders overcame numerous hurdles by cultivating a stakeholder mindset.
Segregation Helped Build Fortunes. What Does Philanthropy Owe Now?
Understanding the historical roots of many foundation endowments is a critical step in considering the question of philanthropic reparations.
SSIR’s 2023 Social Innovation Reading List
Highlights of this year’s book reviews and excerpts on topics including cities, the imagination, disruption, capitalism, and careers.
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How to Scale Sideways
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With an understanding of these 10 funding models, nonprofit leaders can use the for-profit world's valuable practice of engaging in succinct and clear conversations about long-term financial strategy.
Innovative Solutions for the Housing Crisis
Six pathways to making housing more affordable and available from the Ivory Prize for Housing Affordability.
Inside Switzerland’s Radical Drug Policy Innovation
A look at how Switzerland radically and successfully changed its approach to drug policy following a heroin epidemic in the late 1980s and 90s, and what the effort teaches us about the social innovation process.
How 20 Years of Education Reform Has Created Greater Inequality
How standardized testing, gentrification, school choice, and economic downturn have widened inequality to create an existential threat to democracy.
To End Homelessness, the Energy of Money Must Change
How government and philanthropy can unlock the billions needed to shelter America’s unhoused