SSIR Online, Winter 2021 Issue
Links to all of SSIR's online-only articles published the past three months, with editors' notes about standout pieces on menstrual health, virtual events, and the downside to an overly positive organizational culture.
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Nonprofits, It’s Time to Own Your Social Media Audience
A call for organizations to mitigate the risk of change in the social media landscape by strategically decoupling themselves from platforms that are causing harm.
A Strategic Plan to Rebalance Power in Fresno for Inclusive and Equitable Growth
Establishing a shared understanding of Fresno’s racist policies and practices is key to how The Shared Prosperity Partnership will share power with residents who have been routinely excluded.
Using Six Conceptualizations of Capital to Help Achieve the SDGs
By abandoning a narrow understanding of capital as just assets that appear on a balance sheet, businesses and other organizations can harness the value of their people, relationships, knowledge, and processes to move the world closer to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
Rediscovering Fixed Amount Awards
With pending changes to the federal grantmaking regulations promoting results-oriented accountability, now is a good time for grant makers and grantees to see how using fixed amount awards can promote performance over compliance.
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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.