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Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) is an award-winning magazine and website that covers cross-sector solutions to global problems.SSIR is written by and for social change leaders from around the world and from all sectors of society—nonprofits, foundations, business, government, and engaged citizens.SSIR’s mission is to advance, educate, and inspire the field of social innovation by ...

Winter 2025. Volume 23, Number 1 Read about how funders can achieve greater impact through the collective ownership of strategies; how the community development field should rethink financing to prioritize impact, flexibility, and local empowerment; how development professionals should work with the existing assets of informal economies; how …

21 hours ago · BIPOC artists have often banded together to get their vision of justice into the world. We are learning how we might build their narrative power sustainably when we 1) understand and incorporate their lived experiences, 2) cultivate spaces and ecosystems that boost narrative collaboration between BIPOC and other values-aligned artists, Culture Bearers, and movement groups on immigration ...

Bryan Maygers is deputy editor, digital at Stanford Social Innovation Review.He has more than a decade of experience as an editor at some of the web’s most influential news and opinion publications. Before joining SSIR, he was an editor at The Week and previously held several senior editorial positions at HuffPost, where he launched and edited the site’s first opinion section.

5 days ago · Building creative collaborations beyond tech. 1. Engage with academia and think tanks. Universities and research institutions are at the forefront of studying the social, ethical, and policy implications of emerging technologies, with a level of critical thought and rigor that complements a mission-driven focus.

Jan 27, 2025 · Can Women Get Philanthropy Unstuck? It has become common wisdom in the social sector that too much philanthropic capital is sitting on the sidelines, even as the world faces extraordinary social, political, and environmental challenges. The past two decades have seen unprecedented wealth creation coupled with rising income inequality, resulting in a new class of centi-millionaires and ...

Dec 19, 2024 · Throughout 2024, the editors of SSIR’s six local language editions have continued to carefully select, translate, publish, and share dozens of SSIR stories with social innovation communities in the Arab world, Brazil, China, Japan, Korea, and a range of Spanish-speaking countries. Stories focused on equity and inclusion have commonly risen to the top in terms of reader interest globally.

Fall 2024. Volume 22, Number 4 Read about how a bipartisan 20-year campaign boosted US high school graduation rates, how US public education can serve democracy by preparing students to become better citizens, how climate alliances can help business leaders push their industries to adopt more ambitious sustainability goals, how the world’s first privately led …

Jul 1, 2024 · Big Bets! Kevin Starr’s provocative article “Big Bet Bummer” set off a discussion of the past and future of big bet philanthropy, prompting Cecila Conrad to write “In Defense of Big Bets” and Matthew Forti and Claire McGuinness to plot out a course for big bet philanthropy to lead to even bigger social change down the road in “Big Bets for the Long Haul.”