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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Join Stanford Social Innovation Review for a complimentary 60-minute webinar brings together leaders from three nonprofits that have successfully completed major cloud technology projects. By the end ...

As social trust declines and polarization seeps into workplaces, schools, and civic institutions, the questions of when and ...

By Pierre R. Berastaín. A response to Kevin Starr on the "philanthropy" of impact investing ...