Stanford Social Innovation Review

1 week ago | ssir.org | Sonila Cook |Mariah Levin |Charu Bahri |Marianne Dhenin

Issue 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 Kenyan fishing villages are using mangrove conservation to fund local development; and other topics in the Winter 2025 issue of Stanford Social...

1 week ago | ssir.org | Matteo Gasparini |Knut Haanaes |Marianne Dhenin |Valentine Benjamin

Issue 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 pay-for-success experiment helped boost South Korea’s social sector, and other topics in the Fall 2024 issue of Stanford Social...

1 week ago | ssir.org | Kyle Coward |Neha Bhatt |Puja Changoiwala |Deepti Doshi

Current Issue Articles on social change from the latest edition of SSIR Spring 2025 Volume 23, Number 2 Read about how community-based organizations around the world are healing the social fragmentation behind mass atrocities, genocide, and identity-based violence; how a small farm outside Dallas demonstrated how placed-based neighborhood transformation can succeed; how nonprofit leaders can use programmatic asset transfers for greater social impact; how one Latin American organization...

2 weeks ago | ssir.org | Shaady Salehi |Nat Williams |Lorrie Allen |Ashlee George

Issue Spring 2024 Volume 22, Number 2 Read about how the health-care industry is joining the fight against climate change, how social enterprise law around the world balances the cultivation of trust with the promotion of scale, how startup cross-sector collaboratives should set their agendas for success, how Lyme disease patients’ self-advocacy led to the creation of a national vector-borne disease strategy, and other topics in the Spring 2024 issue of Stanford Social Innovation Review....

1 month ago | ssir.org | Adam Kahane

Everyday Habits for Transforming Systems: The Catalytic Power of Radical Engagement Adam Kahane 200 pages, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2025 Buy the book » After 35 years working alongside leading changemakers around the world, I started to ask a fundamental question: How can each of us contribute to transforming the systems we are part of? My answer is crystallized in the notion of “radical engagement” with a system. This doesn’t mean participating in that system distractedly, resigned,...