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Building Supply Chains Where Smallholder Farmers Thrive

Stanford Social Innovation Review

As the United Nations highlights, eradicating poverty is the greatest global challenge and an absolute requirement for sustainable development. To achieve this, more businesses need to join with the government and civil society to actively confront inequality, poverty, and climate change together. A Tyranny of Tradeoffs.

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Why Reparations Can Counter the Legacy of a 50-Year “War on Drugs”

NonProfit Quarterly

The War on Drugs Is Personal The War on Drugs has been a half-century-long, concerted, militarized campaign led by the US government to enforce prohibitions on the importation, manufacture, use, sale, and distribution of substances deemed to be illegal, advancing a punitive rather than a public health approach to drug use.

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What the Lost Children Knew: A Story from Colombia’s Amazon Rainforest

NonProfit Quarterly

Take, for example, the Nurturing Care Framework issued by the World Health Assembly (part of the World Health Organization ), in partnership with UNICEF (United Nations’ Children’s Fund) and the World Bank. Suboptimal” early childhood development is seen as contributing to poverty in communities. 2017 , 77).

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Food Is Her Fight and Her Freedom: Regaining Ground in Rural India

Stanford Social Innovation Review

.” Before the cooperative, women were selling pineapples at a much lower price and were stuck in a cycle of poverty. Once the cooperative was set up with support from civil society 10 years ago, the collective progress has become visceral. They truly celebrate holistic well-being and shared progress with their members.

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How Water.org Adapted Their Social Media Content Strategy in Response to COVID-19

Nonprofit Tech for Good

We wanted to make it clear to our followers the connection between our work and how that helps prevent the spread of disease and impacts the health of families around the world. We must remember the world is dealing with a global health pandemic and important social conversations.

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Gates, Ford, Open Society announce commitments for gender equality

Candid

Announced at the Generation Equality Forum convened by UN Women and co-hosted by the governments of Mexico and France, the Gates Foundation's commitment will focus on three areas: women's economic empowerment, health and family planning, and leadership.

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How Investors Can Shape AI for the Benefit of Workers

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Nearly one in five home healthcare aides lives in poverty. Take healthcare worker burnout for example Things like AI-supported charting, documentation and staffing companies like Abridge , Guardoc and In-House Health , can potentially cut that work by two-thirds.