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

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 ...

News headlines such as “Half of homes have phones but no toilets,” and the diligent efforts of the government of India and nonprofits to provide toilets to the 48 percent of Indians who don’t have one ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A final sweep of 60 years of evidence reveals durable truths about how development succeeds and fails.