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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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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 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.

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Building Supply Chains Where Smallholder Farmers Thrive

Stanford Social Innovation Review

a day to afford a decent and dignified standard of living : enough to afford acceptable housing, feed his family, send his children to school, and cover his farming costs. Four of his five children work rather than attending school to help the family get by. Understandably, not one of Afi’s children sees a future in farming.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Women’s Empowerment Organizations

Bloomerang

This funder invests in and strengthens the capacity of women-led movements to advance meaningful social, cultural, and economic change in women’s lives, specifically across three areas: Economic Justice, Safety, and Women’s Health. They fund nonprofit organizations that support Education, Family, and Health & Wellness.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Photo by Los Muertos Crew on pexels.com On May 1, 2023, a Cessna plane took off from the tiny Amazonian town of Araracuara in Colombia, carrying seven passengers: the pilot, four children, their mother, and another adult. But the four children—Lesly (13), Soleiny (9), Tien Noriel (4), and Cristin (1)—survived.

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Local Collaboration Can Drive Global Progress on the SDGs

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Trends across multiple indicators linked to SDG targets, such as maternal mortality, overdose and suicide rates, and proficiency in reading and math, suggest that the future health and well-being of American youth, women, and minority racial and ethnic groups are particularly at risk.