Nick Jackson, New SSIR Editor-in-Chief, on SSIR’s Future

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Once I first began assembly with the management workforce of Stanford Social Innovation Overview—and its dad or mum, the Stanford Middle on Philanthropy and Civil Society—about doubtlessly becoming a member of the group, I went to the archives. Studying broadly throughout greater than 20 years of publishing on the forefront of social innovation and alter was inspiring, reminding me not simply why I used to be taking the conferences however why I bought into the enterprise of journalism and publishing to start with.

Like others, I used to be drawn to the potential to make a distinction. And over time, from launching well being and expertise protection at The Atlantic to serving because the editor in chief of Pacific Normal, a Nationwide Journal Award-winning nonprofit working on the intersection of narrative journalism and peer-reviewed analysis, I’ve been lucky sufficient to take part within the creation of labor that does simply that. Groups I’ve beforehand been part of have knowledgeable laws on Capitol Hill and shifted the way in which readers see and interact with vital points, each outcomes worthy of the hassle.

Enhancing folks’s lives, whether or not on a grand scale or an intimate one, is the work SSIR has been devoted to from the very starting. It does this by convening brokers and leaders of social change; offering a worldwide platform for the dissemination of recent concepts and analysis; providing an inside take a look at the teams getting it proper; reporting on potential options to social, environmental, and organizational issues; and providing invaluable takeaways and classes for these on the bottom doing the exhausting work—for you.

These efforts is not going to change. However that doesn’t imply it is a static group. A tour by the archives exhibits how a lot SSIR has advanced, at all times with the objective of higher fulfilling its mission and serving its viewers. As the sphere of social innovation has grown, so too has Stanford Social Innovation Overview. Since its founding as {a magazine}, SSIR has launched worldwide editions; partnered with all kinds of teams that share our values to sponsor formidable story packages on the state of philanthropy, implementation science, next-generation nonprofits, and far more; organized occasions each giant and small, in particular person and on-line for anybody to entry; and expanded throughout social channels, e-mail newsletters, and podcasts.

And we’ll proceed to evolve. As SSIR’s new editor in chief, I hope to collaborate and be taught from the extraordinary workforce that brings SSIR to life each single day, in all its codecs and extensions. And I hope to collaborate and be taught from you, too. I invite you to leverage SSIR’s many sources and to actively take part of their creation. Overview our submission tips if in case you have a narrative to share, or e-mail me straight at [email protected] along with your suggestions. What do you wish to see extra of? Much less of? What sort of content material or whose voices are most useful or inspiring to you? What are we doing properly, and what may we be doing higher? SSIR
works greatest when it really works for you.

As we glance to the longer term—to the subsequent 20 years of SSIR—we’ll be asking, with each story we publish and editorial or enterprise resolution we make, how we are able to greatest serve our viewers so you may greatest serve others. How we are able to offer you the instruments and insights it’s essential make a distinction.

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