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

Active capital is fundamental to scaling worker ownership, but the right approach to making a shift depends on company size.

The pandemic didn’t change human nature—it just changed the burden of proof. Where once employees had to justify working from ...

Shaping the direction of AI’s development cannot be the prerogative of engineers and CEOs alone. Citizens have a role not ...

I’m old enough to remember the heady days when impact investing was about “patient capital” and concessionary finance and ...

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

Pay-for-success contracts, also known as social impact bonds, have been widely touted as a clever way to fill the funding gap plaguing social programs by attracting a tranche of the trillions of ...

Like all institutions and organizations, nonprofits are shaped by political frameworks, policies, and programs. So if we ask what future nonprofits might look like—say, the nonprofits of 2025—we must ...

Building collective capacity; AI’s power for the greater good; grappling with systems collapse; lessons from collaborative philanthropy; and more.

As concerns mount about social and environmental sustainability, an unlikely planetary hero has emerged: the accountant. A growing collection of investors, academics, and business leaders have ...

The scale and complexity of the US public education system has thwarted attempted reforms for decades. Major funders, such as the Annenberg Foundation, Ford Foundation, and Pew Charitable Trusts have ...

To fulfill the promise of government for, by, and of the people, we must radically rethink the role that government plays in our lives.