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Investing in Systems Change Capacity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

A market innovation like creating a sustainable seafood market is unlikely to create enduring systems change without building strong relationships with civil society. The Garfield Foundation offers a different example of how networks with capacity achieve systems change that evades individual groups.

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Local Militias Step into Government Gaps

NonProfit Quarterly

Growing Activation In addition to trying to grow numbers, local militia groups are attempting to expand how they train for combat. Earlier this year, Vermont passed a bill that bans owning and running paramilitary training camps, the Associated Press reports.

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Building Supply Chains Where Smallholder Farmers Thrive

Stanford Social Innovation Review

To achieve this, more businesses need to join with the government and civil society to actively confront inequality, poverty, and climate change together. Efficiency gains from the digitization of service delivery have also significantly reduced energy consumption and methane emissions. A Tyranny of Tradeoffs.

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The Urgent Need to Reimagine Data Consent

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Civil society and humanitarian organizations are attuned to the reality that these streams of people generate massive amounts of data that can, for instance, help channel aid to the neediest, predict disease outbreaks, and much more. Today, the term social license is defined in multiple ways.

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“There’s No Such Thing as a Single-Issue Struggle”: A Conversation with Kitana Ananda, Naa Amissah-Hammond, and Quanita Toffie

NonProfit Quarterly

Quanita Toffie: To underscore what Naa already shared around reproductive justice being not just about choice, it’s also about access—so, being able to afford to have an abortion, afford the cost associated with traveling hundreds of miles to the nearest clinic, and so on—there is no choice when there is no access for our communities.

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Investing in Enterprises That Work for Everyone

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Who owns an enterprise, and what rights are associated with that ownership, determines a large part of who controls and benefits from the economy. providing renewable energy or healthy food). At the same time, we are seeing an increase in activity in the space from more conventional and surprising players.

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Building a Green, Equitable Economy: A Conversation with Steve Dubb, Rithika Ramamurthy, Johanna Bozuwa, and Daniel Aldana Cohen

NonProfit Quarterly

You can’t build a base to transform the economy with just a few renewable energy companies, some very smart people working in policy schools, and some well-meaning politicians. Energy insecurity levels between rural areas and inner-city Philadelphia are identical. 2 It has more residents living in social housing than anywhere else.