Inside Social Innovation

Crisis and Change: Conversations With Leaders— Navigating the Pandemic

"Crisis and Change: Conversations With Leaders" is produced in partnership by The Pew Charitable Trusts and Stanford Social Innovation Review. In this final episode of th

Crisis and Change: Conversations With Leaders—Economic Opportunity in America

"Crisis and Change: Conversations With Leaders" is produced in partnership by The Pew Charitable Trusts and Stanford Social Innovation Review. In this episode, Larry Kram

Crisis and Change: Conversations With Leaders—Climate Solutions

"Crisis and Change: Conversations With Leaders" is produced in partnership by The Pew Charitable Trusts and Stanford Social Innovation Review. In this episode, Tonya Alle

Uncharted Ground: Powering Needs, Empowering Lives

Powering Needs, Empowering Lives from Uncharted Ground, a podcast series produced by SSIR and Jonathan Levine. Each episode of Uncharted Ground tells a documentary-style

Crisis and Change: Conversations With Leaders—Race and Diversity Today

"Crisis and Change: Conversations With Leaders" is produced in partnership by The Pew Charitable Trusts and Stanford Social Innovation Review. In the series, leaders from

Crisis and Change: Conversations With Leaders—Political Polarization

"Crisis and Change: Conversations With Leaders" is produced in partnership by The Pew Charitable Trusts and Stanford Social Innovation Review. In the series, leaders from

Coming Soon: Crisis and Change: Conversations With Leaders

Political polarization. Climate change. Racial reckoning. Income inequality. A global pandemic. Since 2020, all five of these immense challenges have emerged or deepened,

Storytelling and Social Change

The entertainment industry has become an important partner to the nonprofit sector, inspiring people to become active around social issues such as climate, poverty, and h

The Risk and Rewards of Mergers as a Nonprofit Growth Strategy

Even as nonprofits are put on the defensive by political polarization, inequality, climate change, and other threats, many of them still seek out opportunities to expand

Scaling and Innovation

Scholars have noted that most new ideas are poor ones that won't be adopted. So how can organizations integrate innovation productively and prevent it from having uninten

Nonprofit and Government Collaborations Move at the 'Speed of Trust'

What do mayors look for and ask from nonprofit managers? What do they wish leaders in the sector would ask of them, and how can public servants and nonprofit leaders lear

Transforming Programs Through Predictive Analytics

Predictive analytics can help organizations iterate rapidly, become more transparent and precise, and pinpoint opportunities to address inequities in their work. In thi

Building a More Ethical Blockchain

Blockchain can help with a variety of social and economic challenges—from securing identity for refugee or homeless populations to minimizing the presence of conflict dia

Strengthening Data Capacity in the Social Sector

What can help the social sector go big on data in the right ways? For one, organizations should stop underestimating their capabilities. And for another, they should buil

A Hippocratic Oath for Our Digital Lives

What responsibilities do we have as individuals, organizations, and a society for how we conduct ourselves online? In this recording from our 2019 Data on Purpose confere

Critical Skill for Nonprofits in the Digital Age: Technical Intuition

In a world where the pace of organizational learning is often slower than the pace of technological change, activists and nonprofit leaders must develop their "technical

MacArthur Foundation Program Leader Reflects on Lessons From 100&Change Grant Competition

In 2016, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, launched 100&Change—a new grant competition, that would award $100 million to an organization with the best pr

Sesame Workshop, Winner of 100&Change Grant Competition, Discusses What's Next

In 2016, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, launched 100&Change—a new grant competition, to award $100 million to an organization with the best proposal t

Building a Communication Strategy for Diversity and Inclusion

Communication strategy can't be an afterthought for organizations that want to fully embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion. It requires a careful examination of words,

Getting Local: Collaborating With Communities of Color

"Community-centered" approaches to social change are nothing new. But the term has become a buzzword in the professionalized social impact world, and strategies intended