How a Nobel Prize in Economics Could Help Solve the Climate Crisis
A growing body of research that explains how human behavior helped create the climate crisis could also point the way toward solving it.
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The Half-Truths That Have Sidetracked Girls’ Education
We are still falling short on girls’ education globally. It’s time for a new approach.
10 SSIR Articles on Climate Change Solutions
A collection of our articles highlighting environmental issues and climate change innovation.
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Bridging the Climate Change Investment Gap
Investments in discovering and developing new solutions to address climate change are woefully low and have even been falling. Sarah Kearney and Scott Burger discuss how can philanthropists help.
Investing in Our Future
Philanthropists and other impact investors play a critical role in funding risky, early-stage startups developing science-based solutions to climate change.
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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.