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SSIR Online, Spring 2025 Issue
A collection of standout pieces published online about co-leadership, democracy, multigenerational living, Gen Z, and global development’s power dynamics.
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Embedding social innovation across sectors is how we drive more durable systemic change. Even in the most challenging times, here are three ways to do that.
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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.
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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
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