Political Participation Across Partisan Divides
A teachers’ union brings together members from opposed political sides by focusing on community interests.
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Preventing Identity-Based Violence From the Ground Up
Worsening conflicts around the world need more than state actors to resolve them. Community-based organizations are working to heal the social fragmentation at the root of mass atrocity and identity-based violence.
Saving Lost Souls
Shraddha Rehabilitation Foundation rescues wanderers from India’s streets, treating them for their mental illnesses and reuniting them with their families.
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Should Heartland Cities Become Tech Hubs?
Urbanist Nicholas Lalla offers a playbook for tech-led economic development in midsize cities, avowing that inclusive growth can offset the worsening wealth inequities that the tech sector has helped generate.
SSIR Online, Spring 2025 Issue
A collection of standout pieces published online about co-leadership, democracy, multigenerational living, Gen Z, and global development’s power dynamics.
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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.