Why compliance systems fall short, and how organizations can develop the skills and systems they need to effectively navigate and ultimately benefit from conflict.

Serious Play: Constructive mischief that has a serious purpose, such as challenging one’s own and others’ thinking. Befriend Ignorance, rather than treating it as a foe: Properly engaged, filling in ...

If an intervention produces tens of millions of dollars in demonstrable public savings, is the capital that enables it “philanthropy”? The SAFE Alliance’s approximately $28 million annual operating ...

How organizations handle disagreement shapes not only their internal health, but also the civic capacities society depends on.

In our years advising, founding, leading, and benefitting from nonprofit organizations, we have often seen them respond to these and other challenges by doubling down on rigorous, well-established ...

Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey, coauthors of Immunity to Change and How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work, have been research and practice collaborators for thirty years. In their new book, An ...

In the past two decades, impact evaluation has become an unavoidable topic in the social sector. Yet beyond the discourse on how to measure social impact lies a structural problem: We are not ...

While AI global venture capital investments exceeded $290 billion between 2019 and 2024, less than 1 percent of this funding went to initiatives aimed at social impact. This stark disparity reveals a ...

Over the past several months, philanthropy has faced rising criticism for its lack of transparency or accountability, perpetuation of wealth inequality, and preservation of a system of exploitation.

SSIR works with publishing partners in six countries to produce local language editions of SSIR that help foster social innovation, learning, and knowledge exchange worldwide. Each local language ...

Collective impact initiatives have contributed to systems changes and improved the lives of many living in our communities. In the next decade, they must focus on equity, shifting imbalances of power, ...