For many NGOs looking to sustainably scale their interventions, the question is not whether to work with government but how. In SSIR’s new winter issue, Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) Africa’s deputy executive director shares how TaRL education initiatives have successfully gained traction in countries across the continent. The key? Cocreating initiatives so that governments can seamlessly integrate them into their regular operations.

In her new book, Host Cities, political scientist Karen Jacobsen explores how refugees are transforming the urban landscape and how cities can adapt infrastructure and funding systems to improve the lives of refugees and locals alike. Read a review

SSIR’s most popular articles in 2025 covered the fallout from massive cuts to USAID, the social sector’s response to the radical changes we’re living through, how organizations can leverage technology for social good, and more.

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Keseb’s global Democracy Innovation Lab (iLab) is seeking 10 innovative community-building projects aimed at fostering inclusive democracies. Selected initiatives will receive $10,000 USD in seed funding and participate in an 8-month program in future visioning and innovation development. We welcome proposals from all interested innovators.

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SSIR’s local language editions have translated and published dozens of stories that are relevant and meaningful to social innovation communities in the regions they serve, including Brazil, China, Japan, Korea, and a range of Spanish-speaking countries. As 2025 draws to a close, read reflections from the global editions’ editors on the issue areas and articles that have resonated most with their readers.

“AI is neither a neutral tool nor an inevitable force. As it’s currently developed and deployed, it’s less a technical system than an ideological project.”

The authors of a new article on artificial intelligence ask deeper questions than whether or how to control AI. Instead, they push readers to consider what kind of world AI is helping to build and who it will serve.

Strategies for scaling worker ownership at a moment when more big capitalists and firms recognize the current system isn’t working.

An excerpt from Irresistible Change on a return-to-office strategy that works and delivers the value of authentic human connection.

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