SSIR’s 2021 Social Innovation Reading List
Highlights from book excerpts published by SSIR online this year on topics including mutualism, grassroots development, breakthrough ideas, racial injustice, and well-being.
Nonprofits & NGOs Innovative ideas to help leaders of nonprofits and nongovernmental organizations work more effectively
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The Vertical Integration of Philanthropy
Why social impact organizations are acquiring mission-aligned nonprofits.
Overcoming Racial Equity Fatigue
Eighteen months after an unprecedented movement for racial justice, many organizations are feeling frustration and disappointment. What now?
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10 Dangers to Collective Impact
A look at the worst practices in using the collective impact approach for social change and lessons on how to avoid them.
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Reflecting on Collective Impact for Place-Based Social Change
Four nonprofit leaders discuss their experiences using collective impact for collaborative, place-based change, including their views on the role of data and philanthropy, and what lies ahead for this field of work.
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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.
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.
Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
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.