A World of Innovation
A look at the issues and articles that resonated most with SSIR’s local language edition readers in 2025.
Social Issues
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An Opportunity to Build the Ownership Economy
The time for worker ownership may have finally come.
What Kind of World Is AI Building?
The ideologies behind today's most powerful technology
The 10 Most Popular SSIR Articles of 2025
Building collective capacity; AI's power for the greater good; grappling with systems collapse; lessons from collaborative philanthropy; and more.
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A New Story for the Environment
An excerpt from A World of Wounds on finding a new way to heal
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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.