Eight Social Entrepreneurs Tell Their Personal Stories
SSIR editors select eight books by leading social entrepreneurs about their personal journeys along the path to social change.
SSIR editors select eight books by leading social entrepreneurs about their personal journeys along the path to social change.
To address social conflicts, we must learn to balance "independent" and "interdependent" selves, two cultural psychologists argue.
The saga of Molly Melching and Tostan, her Africa-based organization, illustrates the power of community-led change.
Three things companies can do to improve their sustainability agenda to attract talent and improve employee productivity.
Boring nonprofit board meetings are deadly.
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.
Social entrepreneurship is attracting growing amounts of talent, money, and attention, but along with its increasing popularity has come less certainty about what exactly a social entrepreneur is and does.
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.
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 deep changes necessary to accelerate progress against society's most intractable problems require someone who catalyzes collective leadership.