This distinction matters because the nonprofit sector tends to recognize only one type of merger: the last-minute rescue, the ...

As the industry and its financial model become increasingly precarious, a reimagining of how performing arts organizations ...

What develops a student’s capacity for systems leadership? In 2023, a team of Wesleyan University first-year students placed first out of nine hundred entries worldwide in the University of Oxford’s ...

The words “Indigenous feminism” can be triggering in Indigenous communities. I’ve read op-eds in the Navajo Times saying “feminism is against our culture,” and when I do workshops on the topic, ...

In the 1860s, American abolitionist Frederick Douglass noted that people invested in social change “endeavor to remove the contradiction” between “what ought to be” and “what is.” This contradiction ...

Consider what the unicorn metric renders invisible. Acumen’s portfolio has reached nearly 800 million low-income people, ...

Choosing the right path to scale depends on the nature of the problem we're trying to solve.

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 ...

People with physical, mental, and developmental disabilities have long been discriminated against and marginalized across the globe, but the roots of disability inequity and its social consequences ...

Sarah Cone’s cover essay in SSIR ’s Summer 2026 issue questioned whether today’s billionaire philanthropists are creating the ...

There's validity to the common explanations for the "vibecession," but articles in this issue go deeper into the longer-term ...

A theater director transformed an abandoned newsstand into a radically new theatrical experience that is helping to revive ...