Preparing young people to participate and govern means moving beyond entrusting civic learning to a single course in high school or an elective on campus.

Although more and more organizations are taking steps toward greater diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the workplace, people of color continue to consistently report feeling undervalued, ...

Many social impact leaders feel pressure to engage with AI but are overwhelmed and lack a clear starting point. Four fundamental questions can help frame early conversations, grounding AI strategy in ...

Is co-leadership having a moment? The model is not exactly new, particularly in the nonprofit sector. But the pandemic exposed crises in leadership at the same time that new (or renewed) commitments ...

We judge philanthropic capital's impact by what it builds while it is building. We should judge by what stands, without it, ...

To test the value of AI, we ran an experiment alongside our annual impact performance assessment run between May and June of this year. As part of this assessment, we use a rating scale (1-4, with ...

The nonprofit sector is deeply in debt to individuals who identify a needs gap in their communities and are propelled to launch a formal effort to address that need by founding a 501(c)(3). It takes ...

What is education for? In a moment when curricula are contested, and civic life is shot through with conflict, the question ...

In 2025, SSIR authors grappled with the world as it is. This year’s top articles examine the fallout from massive cuts to USAID, how to reevaluate the impact we can have when systems collapse, taking ...

Being a nonprofit CEO is a weird, often lonely gig. You straddle responsibilities to a lean staff, volunteer board, donors, and the community at large. The pressure to raise money, measure success, ...

Just over 10 years ago, JPMorgan and the Rockefeller Foundation, together with the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), published a report claiming that impact investment was an emerging asset ...