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10 Ways Funders Can Address Generative AI Now

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Most obviously, funders working in specific issue areas—climate, health, education, or in my case, democracy—can work to support efforts downstream to prepare government and civil society in their respective sectors to take advantage of the opportunities and mitigate the risks of AI on their specific areas of concern.

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Better Climate Funding Means Centering Local and Indigenous Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For example, another recent study on African conservation funding practices finds that 92 percent of African civil society organizations struggle to access sufficient core funding, 71 percent of them identified short-term project structures as a key barrier, and 52 percent find existing proposal and reporting requirements to be a barrier.

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Local Militias Step into Government Gaps

NonProfit Quarterly

Earlier this year, Vermont passed a bill that bans owning and running paramilitary training camps, the Associated Press reports. But while residents and town officials are working to oppose dangerous militia operations, the town is also protecting itself from environmental harm.

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Debt-for-climate swaps can save the planet. Why aren’t they?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For instance, some governments may perceive the imposition of environmental commitments as an infringement on their sovereignty. Furthermore, debt-for-nature swaps may not free up enough revenues for the debtor country to finance environmental programs. Each of these challenges must be tackled head-on.

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Once the cooperative was set up with support from civil society 10 years ago, the collective progress has become visceral. Today, Amul has more than 16 million milk producers and 185,903 dairy cooperative societies making India the world’s largest milk producer.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

This was a moment of reckoning within the climate movement: environmental justice advocates were rightfully mad at the ultimate outcomes done behind closed doors at the last minute, and other folks who are far more focused on carbon reduction were lauding the bill. It’s all carrots, very few sticks.

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In Search of Inclusive Social Entrepreneurship

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Using market mechanisms, many social entrepreneurs have followed the example of Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank to set up enterprises with a main objective of tackling social or environmental issues. Human capital is positively associated with creativity and value creation.