Videos
Conversations with social innovators
Interviews
Three Questions With Sean Reardon
Stanford education professor Reardon talks with SSIR's Michael Slind about the role of socio-economic inequality in educational achievement gaps.
Three Questions With Darren Walker
Ford Foundation president Darren Walker talks with SSIR senior editor Michael Slind about what organizations like his can do to address inequality.
Three Questions With Angela Glover Blackwell
Blackwell, president and CEO of PolicyLink, talks with SSIR senior editor Michael Slind about the role of public policy in addressing inequality and creating a more prosperous society.SSIR Academy
Storytelling in Communications Part 3
This video is for staff members at nonprofits, social enterprises, and foundations who are interested in learning how storytelling can help increase their organization’s impact.
The Importance of Strategy in Communications Part 1
This video is for staff members at nonprofits, social enterprises, and foundations who are interested in approaching communications with a strategic mindset.
Using Communications to Create a Winning Campaign Part 2
In this video, Eric Brown of Brownbridge Strategies will discuss the most important elements of creating a winning campaign.
The Network Leader Mindset Part 1
Targeted at managers and executive leaders, this video offers participants lessons on how to build cultures and structures that enable networks to thrive.
Presentations and Panels
Communicating Our Values
In this video from The Communications Network's ComNet17 conference in Miami, Grant Oliphant, president of the Heinz Endowments, challenges communicators at social sector organizations not to hide behind silence when the values they stand for are being politicized.
Data On Purpose | Do Good Data: Prediction vs Bias
Is it possible to use data to make predictions without enforcing existing biases?
Data On Purpose | Do Good Data: When Data Science Meets Evaluation Practice
Rhonda Evans looks at lessons from Monitor Institute’s Re-imagining Measurement initiative.
Data On Purpose | Do Good Data: Crowd Collectives to Tackle Problems at Scale
Stanford's Michael Bernstein discusses how computational systems can create collectives of experts to solve problems.Article Extras
Making Markets Work
Foundation leaders consider the strengths, limitations, and potential of program related investments (PRIs), a form of impact investing intended to further a foundation’s programmatic and charitable goals.
Education in Afghanistan
After developing a new building technique, the nonprofit ARZU Studio Hope used the technique to build a preschool in Afghanistan as part of its mission to support education for women and children.
If We Want Our Funding to Change the World…
Grantmakers and nonprofit leaders at the Donors Forum—an annual convening in Illinois to advance social change institutions—discuss the real cost of running an effective nonprofit and why it is essential for grantmakers to support indirect costs.