2024 Summer Social Innovation Reading List
Suggested books and articles from SSIR’s editors
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Measuring the Impact of Training the Trainers: Lessons From Pilots and Plastic Surgeons
How can organizations quantify the impact of the train-the-trainers model? A pioneering new study from a health-care nonprofit offers a template.
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Corporate Power That Benefits All of Us
Being in business means having a social impact. To build a flourishing nation for all people, we need businesses to take a leadership role.
Plan C for Greening Business
Engaging directly with business was never the environmental movement’s first choice—and for good reason.
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We Need to Diversify Our Innovation Portfolio
An excerpt from Behind the Startup on how venture capital investors set the agenda for innovation
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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.