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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. Embedding change into a system means philanthropic staff, trustees, organizational divisions, and funder collaborative members must buy into the process.

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A Framework for Business Action on Climate Justice

Stanford Social Innovation Review

All sectors have a role to play in achieving climate justice, but it’s fair to say that compared to government and civil society, business is late in addressing the challenge and is in fact frequently called out as part of the problem. Why Climate Justice Matters to Business. Sharing burdens and benefits fairly.

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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. Besides perpetual food insecurity, many are unable to access or cover basic health services, housing, transportation, water and sanitation, or education.

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Lessons From the Failures of Covax

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Without an equally unprecedented level of coordination and collaboration—requiring rigorously examining the lessons of the pandemic response—all of us will be impacted by these future challenges, particularly people living in global majority (or lower- and middle-income) countries.

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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. This need is not specific to migrants alone.

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It’s Not Just You: Bernie Sanders Makes the Case for Passionate Movements

NonProfit Quarterly

Healthcare, education, and housing have all become unaffordable. Using stark statistics and bold imperatives, he shows that the pursuit of happiness means nothing in an economy where just three people own more wealth than the 165 million people that make up the bottom half of US society.

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Governments representing deeply indebted nations are often unable to invest in health care, education, and other services, which, in turn, threatens their very political survival. To accomplish this, the IMF and World Bank can coordinate and collaborate with other creditors to align their policies and practices on debt swaps.