When a nonprofit I founded in 1990 saw success in Boston, we were able to grow that nonprofit to two additional cities, Philadelphia and Hartford. In doing so, we encountered a host of ...

Collective impact initiatives have contributed to systems changes and improved the lives of many living in our communities. In the next decade, they must focus on equity, shifting imbalances of power, ...

The frequent use of social indicators to characterize Indigenous youth—including rates of depression, substance abuse, school ...

Cross-contextual learning has long been a vital tool for innovation. The pro-democracy field is no different, and a specific group of innovators are especially primed for and in need of cross-border ...

To build an equitable and sustainable society, the social sector cannot take the place of the government, as Mark Kramer and Steve Phillips recently observed; “Only government has the capacity to ...

That sentiment, which became central to the second-wave-feminist discourse of the 1960s and ’70s, gave voice to the idea that personal experiences, particularly those of women, could no longer be ...

Starting with the need instead of the solution can lead to stronger impact.

SSIR works with publishing partners in six countries to produce local language editions of SSIR that help foster social innovation, learning, and knowledge exchange worldwide. Each local language ...

We’re leading a collective-impact effort to prevent homelessness in Silicon Valley. Our public-private partnership offers a profound model for systems change.