Rather than making others feel bad, she’s flagged her flaws and triggered a more constructive conversation. That’s the power ...

By Philipe M. Bujold, Gayle Burgess & Lucia A. Reisch. At its core, conservation is about behavior change. Yet few ...

At its core, conservation is about behavior change. Yet few organizations have put in place the structure, standards, and ...

At its core, conservation is about behavior change. Yet few organizations have put in place the structure, standards, and ...

Earthquakes, hurricanes, and other disasters are terrible—pain and suffering abounding, lives and homes destroyed. Rebecca Solnit’s brilliant new book documents and explains the other side of ...

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 ...

An excerpt from Evaluative Inquiry for Systemic Change on embedding value into evaluation ...

The pandemic didn’t change human nature—it just changed the burden of proof. Where once employees had to justify working from home, now leaders have to justify why anyone should come to the office at ...

In 2025, SSIR authors grappled with the world as it is. This year’s top articles examine the fallout from massive cuts to USAID, how to reevaluate the impact we can have when systems collapse, taking ...

Discussions of artificial intelligence tend to oscillate between techno-utopianism and existential dread, between simply asking what AI can do or wondering how we might contain it. But there are ...

Sometimes a prosaic AI query produces something that looks more like parody. The other day, I asked Claude to give me the latest definition of “impact investing” and it served up this gem: “There’s ...