Beyond Randomized Controlled Trials
How the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and the Evidence to Policy (E2P) community are integrating innovation and evidence into social policy and practice at scale.
Collaboration Innovative ways organizations can work together to increase their overall reach and efficacy
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How Philanthropy Can Create Public Systems Change
Philanthropic investment in the public system through the social sector can enable statewide systems change. Here is the story of how one initiative transformed access to public higher education for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated Californians. Read other feature stories or Editor-in-Chief Eric Nee's note from the Spring 2020 issue.
Don’t Forget the Public Sector
Social innovation leaders should reconsider partnering with the public sector, which has many more resources and much more power than the nonprofit sector, and more of a mandate to address social problems than does business.
Shaping Research to Create More Social Impact
Co-creating evidence with communities and decision makers can lead to research with more impact.
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.
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Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
The Bias of ‘Professionalism’ Standards
Professionalism has become coded language for white favoritism in workplace practices that more often than not leave behind people of color. This is the fourth of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Creating High-Impact Nonprofits
Conventional wisdom says that scaling social innovation starts with strengthening internal management capabilities. This study of 12 high-impact nonprofits, however, shows that real social change happens when organizations go outside their own walls and find creative ways to enlist the help of others.
What Business Execs Don’t Know—but Should—About Nonprofits
Business leaders play vital roles in the nonprofit sector – as board members, donors, partners, and even executives. Yet all too often they underestimate the unique challenges of managing nonprofit organizations.
The Dawn of System Leadership
The deep changes necessary to accelerate progress against society's most intractable problems require someone who catalyzes collective leadership.