Building a Solidarity Ecosystem for AI
How cooperatives, public institutions, and social movements can come together to intentionally build a practical, community-owned alternative to extractive AI systems.
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Scale That Lasts
A framework for moving from government partnership to country ownership
The Low-Cost AI Illusion
What the next economic phase of artificial intelligence means for public interest work and how organizations can protect equity, access, and themselves.
Iterative A/B Testing for Social Impact: Rigorous, Rapid, Regular
How organizations can close the gap between measurement and implementation
A World of Innovation
A look at the issues and articles that resonated most with SSIR’s local language edition readers in 2025.
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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.