In response to the coronavirus epidemic, SSIR has temporarily halted seeking submissions for a series on extreme polarization and how it affects civil society's efforts to solve social problems, and ...

Social innovation leaders should reconsider partnering with the public sector, which has many more resources and much more power than the nonprofit sector, and more of a mandate to address social ...

Without bringing more rigor and resources to scaling impact efforts, the do-good industry will never make the exponential leaps needed to bring social innovations to millions of people. There is no ...

In most developing countries, few children graduate from secondary school and many don’t even finish primary school. In Ghana, for example, only 50 percent of children complete grade 5, and of those, ...

The second son of the former Libyan president wrote a dissertation entitled “The Role of Civil Society in the Democratization of Global Governance Institutions: ..." The debate on the 2012 budget and ...

Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.

Fidaa El Tunky has created the first grassroots venture capital project for rural women in the whole of the Arab region. Featuring Pierre Carpentier, Jean-Michel Lecuyer, & Céline Claverie Pierre ...

The 2016 US presidential election is reminding philanthropy of its value.

Practical ways investors can help the people most affected by climate change become more resilient to it, while still securing a strong financial return.

To tap the full potential of a systems change approach, we should not limit our thinking to large, transformational changes. We should also include smaller, more targeted changes. Featuring Reed ...

Whether there is a profit motive or not, the notion that business has a role to play in addressing societal issues is at the heart of today’s discourse on social entrepreneurship.

The philanthropic community has no public opposition to a new, ill-advised piece of legislation.