When impact brings pressure to expand, leaders can (and must) carefully decide when growth helps and when it hurts.

How can we teach students to embrace their civic identity as members of their communities and support them in leading our nation's democratic renaissance?

Global health challenges call for solutions that are national, regional, or continent-wide in scope. This makes partnership with national and subnational governments essential, as government ...

Marie Dageville’s life took a dramatic turn in September 2020 when Snowflake, the cloud computing company co-founded by her husband, Benoit Dageville, had its initial public offering. Suddenly, the ...

Convening is a loosely used term that covers regular staff meetings, major public events, and everything in between. Convenings may bring people together to deliberate on day-to-day organizational ...

“For one year I didn’t even leave my house. During that time, I didn’t bathe, and I couldn’t even open a window for fear of seeing my dirty reflection,” said a young woman who has lived as a recluse ...

“We’re just trying to survive,” a social enterprise leader told us recently. “We’re doing things here and there with AI but haven’t made sense of it across the organization. I know we need to spend ...

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 ...

The 1996 horror movie Scream has long been famous for its twist: As the protagonist prepares diligently to defend against threats from the outside, it turns out the killer is already inside the house.

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, ...

As the world faces the climate crisis, international protests for racial justice, a global pandemic, and an economic downturn, the social change sector is struggling. Organizations across the spectrum ...