Twin Engines for Propelling Social Impact
The business world’s “Engine 1/Engine 2” concept can help ambitious nonprofits balance today’s needs with tomorrow’s potential.
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Reconceptualizing the Social Economy
The social economy is increasingly seen as a motor for social change, but how can this shift in perspectives be framed to better understand and harness its potential?
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An Antidote to Orthodoxy
A new book argues that “alien” thinking can drive social change.
SSIR Guide to COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution
A collection of SSIR articles on civil society's insights into the logistics behind a global vaccination campaign, including ideas for winning over the hearts and minds of people who aren’t yet convinced they should get the shot.
Impact Investors Need to Share Power, Not Just Capital
Lack of access to capital is a longstanding and well-known barrier to equity for communities of color and women, but overcoming systemic injustices will take more than moving money. How investments are made, and the power dynamics behind those decisions, need to change, too.
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Drowning in Data
Funders are calling for more program evaluation, but nonprofits are often collecting dubious data, at great cost to themselves and ultimately to the people they serve.
Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
Plotting Impact Beyond Simple Metrics
For NGOs, impact comes in different forms and to track the cycles of social change work, we must think across the tangibility and the speed of emergence of change.
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.