Collaboration
Need a Boost? 14 Stories That Inspired Us in 2025
Innovation stories on collaborating for greater impact, protecting and preserving history, an inspiring model of civic leadership, and more.
Cities
SSIR’s 2025 Social Innovation Reading List
Looking for a new book over winter break? Here’s a collection of some of our most popular book reviews and excerpts published in 2025.
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Measurement & Evaluation
What ‘Good’ Means
An excerpt from Evaluative Inquiry for Systemic Change on embedding value into evaluation
Health
The Sound of Disease
A 10-second cough app is helping detect India's most dangerous respiratory illnesses.
Education
Scaling Across Borders
Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) Africa shares lessons for effectively supporting government partners and working within existing systems.
Review
Cities
Host Cities: How Refugees Are Transforming the World’s Urban Settings
In her new book, Host Cities, political scientist Karen Jacobsen explores how refugees are transforming the urban landscape. Read a review
Business
An Opportunity to Build the Ownership Economy
The time for worker ownership may have finally come.
Environment
SSIR’s Top Global Stories of 2025
Reflections from SSIR global editions’ editors on the issue areas and articles that have resonated most with their readers.
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Excerpt
Leadership
If You Want People in the Office, Build One Worth Coming To
An excerpt from Irresistible Change on a return-to-office strategy that works
Technology
What Kind of World Is AI Building?
The ideologies behind today's most powerful technology
Leadership
The 10 Most Popular SSIR Articles of 2025
Building collective capacity; AI's power for the greater good; grappling with systems collapse; lessons from collaborative philanthropy; and more.
Impact Investing
There Is No Such Thing as Impact Investing
There is philanthropic investing, and there is commercial investing, and there is nothing in between.
Excerpt
Environment
A New Story for the Environment
An excerpt from A World of Wounds on finding a new way to heal
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Governance
Open Board Search
How a new approach to recruiting board members can transform nonprofits.
sponsored
No Way Out Without a Fight
The ground-up work to stop US oil and gas expansion and create new climate politics
Government
Laying the Groundwork for Government-Led Poverty Reduction
Four priorities for NGOs turning to local government partnerships in the face of funding cuts to help build lasting, large-scale solutions to poverty.
Collaboration
The Impact Collaborative
A new nonprofit alliance model shows how previously siloed organizations can collaborate to scale services while retaining autonomy.
Measurement & Evaluation
Impact Accounting Has an Equity Problem
Is water in Sweden really 25 times more valuable than water in Mauritania?
