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Can Cities Be the Source of Scalable Innovations?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

And the US Green Building Council (USGBC), an intermediary promoting energy-efficient construction, developed guidelines and rating systems for sustainable cities and neighborhoods. In fact, city leaders often follow the pioneering innovations of civil society organizations.

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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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Philanthropy during COVID-19 in Brazil 

Candid

To understand how the pandemic impacted the philanthropic sector and civil society organizations around the world, we reached out to local experts who shared their observations and experiences over the past two years. Brazil’s culture of giving and philanthropy has been growing since the 1980s. billion by the summer of 2020. .

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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. There are actions that governments, organizations, and movements can take to counter extremist activities , both upstream and downstream.

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Choosing AI’s Impact on the Future of Work

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This is doubly true for AI, because these new tools can be developed for many different types of activities, with the potential to spread rapidly in every sector of the economy and in every aspect of our lives. It is crucial, however, that the renewed energy of organized labor is channeled in the right way.

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Impact Without Imposition: What Role for Northern Academics in the Global South?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Georg von Richthofen & Ali Aslan Gümüsay This year, our institute published several studies as part of the research project Sustainability, Entrepreneurship, and Global Digital Transformation (SET) based on activities in seven countries in the Global South. None of the studies were written by ourselves.

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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.