Innovation stories on collaborating for greater impact, protecting and preserving history, affordable housing, an inspiring ...

While it may be tempting to ask whether a system has changed, it is a question that makes no inherent sense. Systems are ...

Highlights of this year’s book reviews and excerpts on topics including gun violence prevention, cash transfers, refugees, regenerative agriculture, adapting to climate change, reinventing solidarity, ...

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 ...

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

A look at the issues and articles that resonated most with SSIR’s local language edition readers in 2025.

For people who move money in the name of impact, the shutdown of USAID landed like a star collapsing into itself. The United States government’s flagship development agency—once the world’s biggest ...

As the global financial crisis unfolds, those least responsible—our world’s poor—will be most affected. Many have called upon President Obama to uphold his campaign commitment to double foreign ...

The Rockefeller Foundation had a simple question: How can you turn a solar-powered flashlight into an all-purpose room light? For parts of the world that lack access to regular electricity, the answer ...

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