What We Owe to Caregivers
Laura Mauldin's In Sickness and in Health examines the plight of family caregivers and the ableism that causes them to suffer their burden alone.
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Building a Climate-Activist Ecosystem
The Kennedy-backed nonprofit Climate Emergency Fund supports disruptive activism to raise awareness of the climate crisis—and is looking to scale. | Open access to this article for non-subscribers is sponsored by an SSIR supporter.
The New Paradigm of Airborne Disease
The COVID-19 pandemic shattered established views of airborne disease. Although it represents a paradigm shift in public health, the field has yet to catch up.
Transforming Organic Certification
Mexico's participatory guarantee systems are empowering small-scale farmers to compete with larger certified organic producers.
A Sideways Approach to Governing
Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens is seeking to improve his city by going neighborhood by neighborhood.
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Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
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 Bias of ‘Professionalism’ Standards
Professionalism has become coded language for white favoritism in workplace practices that more often than not leave behind people of color. This is the fourth of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Design Thinking for Social Innovation
By working closely with the clients and consumers, design thinking allows high-impact solutions to social problems to bubble up from below rather than being imposed from the top.
The Science of What Makes People Care
Five principles based in social science that will help organizations connect their work to what people care most about.