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