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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...