2023 Summer Social Innovation Reading List
Suggested books and articles from SSIR’s editors.
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Local Collaboration Can Drive Global Progress on the SDGs
Learning from global peers and using the sustainable development goals as a framework for measuring progress, US cities are accelerating solutions to social problems.
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The Ask
An excerpt from Good Influence on harnessing the “Influencer Effect” for impact
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Bossware Is Coming for You: Worker Surveillance Technology Is Everywhere
Technology enables companies to monitor their employees constantly. But workers are organizing to fight back.
Approaching Gender Equity Through Indigenous Knowledge and Customs
A trial program that worked with couples in rural Zimbabwe shows the potential of a locality-based approach.
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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.