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 ...

A collection of some of Stanford Social Innovation Review's most popular book reviews and excerpts published in 2025: Advancing Peace: Ending Urban Gun Violence Through the Power of Redemptive Love, ...

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.

Last summer, institutions across sectors were called to account for their failure to address systemic racism. Many organizational leaders addressed the backlash by requesting trainings and ...

MICHAEL GORDON VOSS: Welcome to season three of Giving with Impact, an original podcast series from Stanford Social Innovation Review, developed with the support of Schwab Charitable. I’m your host, ...

Have you ever heard of Kalamang? If not, you’re not alone. It’s an endangered language spoken by only 130 people and it has virtually no online presence. That’s one reason why, in 2023, it became the ...

As Brazilian author Paulo Coelho writes, “You drown not by falling into a river but by staying submerged in it.” This is an apt metaphor for how trauma impacts people, individually and collectively.