Cities
Urban Development Needs Systems Thinking
Lessons from 15 cities in Eastern Europe and Central Asia on addressing interconnected civic challenges.
Tag: Systems Change
Leadership
Grappling With Systems Collapse: How Social Sector Leaders Can Respond
The social sector needs new models for understanding what impact might be possible when the systems we operate in fall apart.
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Human Rights
Working With Cracks
An excerpt from Everyday Habits for Transforming Systems on finding the leverage points for change
Impact Investing
The Limitations of Investing in Universal Solutions
Systemic investing requires embedding investments in their context.
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From Margin to Mainstream: Social Innovation for Systems Change
Embedding social innovation across sectors is how we drive more durable systemic change. Even in the most challenging times, here are three ways to do that.
Economic Development
Innovating for a Healthy Context
Improving the effectiveness of development innovations
Philanthropy & Funding
The 10 Most Popular SSIR Articles of 2024
Healing trauma in systems; a critique of strategic philanthropy; nonprofit growth revisited; AI-powered nonprofits; communication in a new era; and more.
Philanthropy & Funding
Investing for Systems Change Means Refining How We Think About Impact
How systemically minded philanthropy can reflect, review, and refine portfolios for scalable impact
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These Times Ask More of Us
Practices that will help social sector leaders prepare to usher in a new world.
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Evolving Philanthropy for Collective Action
From system orchestration to partnership, to evaluation and learning, this series highlights successful approaches to collective action and examples of social transformation.