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 ...

School-based models for developing talent won't provide the skillful, resilient people every society will need going forward.

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 ...

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

Microfinance isn’t a cure-all solution to poverty, but abandoning it would ignore the real evidence that responsible ...

Rodgers Oloo Magutha, 28, has become a local celebrity for rescuing and rehabilitating injured and orphaned wild birds in his one-room apartment in Nairobi.

In that sense, the vanishing developmental commons is a story about the environment and experiences we choose to lean into as ...

Rather than formulating a perfect vision and then trying to elicit compliance from others, effective reform leadership looks ...

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 ...

Equity, stock, and capacity grants: Nonprofits accepting tools and staffing from AI companies might also receive financial ...

A few weeks ago, a close friend approached me to join in a giving circle supporting families facing financial hardship in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. I accepted the invitation without a second ...