The decline and fall of ESG offers a cautionary tale for social impact financing and highlights the need for the sector to sharpen its understanding of catalytic capital. A new definitional framework for catalytic capital can help drive clarity, measurement, and greater market participation.
How artmaking and creative practice in the United States can address community challenges, strengthen local economies, and rebuild human connections—and three less-well-traveled ways to support it.
AI technologies are reshaping society. SSIR brought together 20+ leaders to explore the intersections of AI with civil society, ethics, governance, the public sector, and more.
The social sector needs new models for understanding what impact might be possible when the systems we operate in fall apart.
Organizations committed to social change through storytelling can use this four-part framework to design and evaluate their narrative strategies.
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.
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
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.
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.
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.
