Deep Listening for Impact Measurement
How AI-driven text and voice analysis can transform impact investing strategies.
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The 10 Most Popular SSIR Articles of 2024
Healing trauma in systems; a critique of strategic philanthropy; nonprofit growth revisited; AI-powered nonprofits; communication in a new era; and more.
Cool Carts
Cooling innovation helps food hawkers who cannot afford conventional refrigeration.
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Server Farm
We must turn to the nonhuman intelligence all around us to articulate a framework for ethical and regenerative life.
SSIR Online, Winter 2025 Issue
A collection of standout pieces published online about strategic philanthropy, strengthening global democracy, crisis planning, and nonprofits leveraging AI innovations
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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.
Innovative Solutions for the Housing Crisis
Six pathways to making housing more affordable and available from the Ivory Prize for Housing Affordability.
The Challenge of Organizational Learning
A recent study found three common barriers to knowledge sharing across nonprofits and their networks, as well as ways and means to overcome them.
The Dragonfly Effect
Two veterans of consumer psychology, marketing, and entrepreneurship provide a guide to using social media for social change.
The Case for Causal AI
Using artificial intelligence to predict behavior can lead to devastating policy mistakes. Health and development programs must learn to apply causal models that better explain why people behave the way they do to help identify the most effective levers for change.