Innovation stories on collaborating for greater impact, protecting and preserving history, affordable housing, an inspiring ...

Active capital is fundamental to scaling worker ownership, but the right approach to making a shift depends on company size.

How a broad bet on a biotech company paid off in promising drugs for neglected diseases.

A look at the issues and articles that resonated most with SSIR’s local language edition readers in 2025.

Civic Engagement The Emerging Field of Political Innovation Civil society has attended to social problems for decades while intentionally refraining from overt engagement with politics. But a new ...

While it may be tempting to ask whether a system has changed, it is a question that makes no inherent sense. Systems are ...

Although it is possible for impact investors to achieve social impact along with market rate returns, it's not easy to do and doesn't happen nearly as often as many boosters would have you believe.

As Brazilian author Paulo Coelho writes, “You drown not by falling into a river but by staying submerged in it.” This is an apt metaphor for how trauma impacts people, individually and collectively.

As concerns mount about social and environmental sustainability, an unlikely planetary hero has emerged: the accountant. A growing collection of investors, academics, and business leaders have ...

Pay-for-success contracts, also known as social impact bonds, have been widely touted as a clever way to fill the funding gap plaguing social programs by attracting a tranche of the trillions of ...

The scale and complexity of the US public education system has thwarted attempted reforms for decades. Major funders, such as the Annenberg Foundation, Ford Foundation, and Pew Charitable Trusts have ...

In an area outside Hyderabad, India, between the suburbs and the countryside, a young woman—we’ll call her Shanti—fetches water daily from the always-open local borehole that is about 300 feet from ...