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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

It requires renegotiating the social contract that underlies education—who holds power, who earns trust, who gets to make ...

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 ...

The day after the Affordable Care Act was signed, I was at a forum with many of the nation’s leading children’s health experts. The vast majority applauded the measure but bemoaned the missed ...

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, we expected to see a wave of nonprofit mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Like many others, we thought that the pandemic’s challenges would likely combine with ...

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, ...

One glimpse at the August 2024 wildfire incident map of Western North America and one might have thought half the continent was on fire. Oregon had declared a statewide wildfire state of emergency ...