2023 Summer Social Innovation Reading List
Suggested books and articles from SSIR’s editors.
Nonprofits & NGOs Innovative ideas to help leaders of nonprofits and nongovernmental organizations work more effectively
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Measuring Narrative Change: Moving From Theory to Practice
Funders may be reluctant to support narrative work because progress is difficult to evaluate. Are these objections valid?
Approaching Gender Equity Through Indigenous Knowledge and Customs
A trial program that worked with couples in rural Zimbabwe shows the potential of a locality-based approach.
How Men’s Mental Health Resources Can Help Serve All Communities
One of the toughest challenges for social impact leaders can be reaching people who have been historically stigmatized or excluded by social and cultural norms.
Why Settle for Cookie-Cutter People and Culture Practices?
Six ideas that could help organizations improve hiring, performance, equity, and more.
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Drowning in Data
Funders are calling for more program evaluation, but nonprofits are often collecting dubious data, at great cost to themselves and ultimately to the people they serve.
Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
Plotting Impact Beyond Simple Metrics
For NGOs, impact comes in different forms and to track the cycles of social change work, we must think across the tangibility and the speed of emergence of change.
Ten Nonprofit Funding Models
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.
The Problem With Fair Trade Coffee
Fair Trade-certified coffee is growing in sales, but strict certification requirements are resulting in uneven economic advantages for coffee growers and lower quality coffee for consumers.