The United Nations’ Innovation Learning Journey
Despite a notoriously innovation-adverse environment in UN organizations overall, a growing body of success stories are changing lives and contributing to continuous organizational learning.
Health Innovations in health care policies and programs
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2023 Summer Social Innovation Reading List
Suggested books and articles from SSIR’s editors.
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Local Collaboration Can Drive Global Progress on the SDGs
Learning from global peers and using the sustainable development goals as a framework for measuring progress, US cities are accelerating solutions to social problems.
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Going Beyond Borders: The Case for Global Learning
Too many global health crises play out in silos on every continent, but there is much to learn across borders about creating better health and well-being in communities.
Beyond ‘Toughing It Out’: Mental Health in the Social Change Workplace
Integrating mental health in social change workplaces allows us to cultivate new narratives and norms that will better sustain long-term engagement with social change.
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What Is Community Anyway?
Our understanding of community can help funders and evaluators identify, understand, and strengthen the communities they work with.
The Dragonfly Effect
Two veterans of consumer psychology, marketing, and entrepreneurship provide a guide to using social media for social change.
Burnout From an Organizational Perspective
Instead of pressuring already-stressed individuals to fix themselves, true wellness requires organization-level interventions.
The Case for Causal AI
Using artificial intelligence to predict behavior can lead to devastating policy mistakes. Health and development programs must learn to apply causal models that better explain why people behave the way they do to help identify the most effective levers for change.
The Upside of Nonprofit Burnout
Two years ago I quit my nonprofit CEO job. I’ve just had the two most productive years of my career.