Abortion Should No Longer Be a Dirty Word for the Nonprofit Sector
How the overturning of Roe v. Wade will affect fundraising and strategy for organizations—whether they provide abortion care or not.
Social Issues
Latest
Reading List: Advancing Responsible, Equitable Technology
Ahead of SSIR’s 2022 Data on Purpose conference, “Putting the Public Interest Before Technology,” here’s a collection of articles and books exploring how social change leaders can advocate for technology that is designed, deployed, and regulated in responsible and equitable ways.
What Makes Narrative Change So Hard?
Nonprofits and funders can go too far in pointing fingers at their own shortcomings. The reality is that they are playing on an uneven psychological field.
Leaky Pipelines or Broken Scaffolding? Supporting Women’s Leadership in STEM
Why the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) field in the United States struggles to recruit and retain women—especially women of color—and three strategies to support their professional development and leadership in these fields.
Excerpt
Weaving a Network of Relationships
An excerpt from The New Reason to Work on intentional and authentic networking, which means adding value to others as much as seeking help from them.
Most Popular
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.