When Diversity Initiatives Fail
Technology tools used to identify racially diverse candidates made employees at one company feel like Black and brown candidates were being commodified.
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Who Benefits From Benefit Corporations?
In Becoming a Public Benefit Corporation, Michael B. Dorff contributes a well-balanced examination of the pros and cons of the benefit corporation.
SSIR Online, Winter 2024 Issue
A collection of standout pieces published online about problem-solving, telling better stories, advancing reparations, and the growing impact of AI in the social sector.
A Call to Remember
The nonprofit Nā Kama Kai commemorates those who perished and suffered from the Maui wildfires.
Do All AI Systems Need to Be Explainable?
“Explainable AI” can bridge the gap between AI outputs and human expertise, but a balance needs to be struck between explainability and performance.
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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.
Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition
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.