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How Global Talent Enriches a Global Health Organization

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Yet to address these problems, we need to zoom in, convening experts, civil society and affected communities to explore sustainable solutions that work in the local context. Some challenges may be less tangible, such as cultural differences and values. The telephoto perspective allows us to identify problems.

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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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Invest in Networks for Exponential Climate Wins

Stanford Social Innovation Review

That’s because each network member can tackle a piece of the puzzle, while maintaining relationships that allow coordination, collaboration, and troubleshooting. DEC is able to achieve major policy wins because each member organization adds unique value to a carefully coordinated campaign effort that can ramp up at opportune policy moments.

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Using ‘Purple Glasses’ to Achieve Gender Equity in Mexico

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This involves collaborating with women leaders in business and academia around the world, which extends the impact of our work locally and creates valuable professional relationships and partnerships. Innovation thus becomes a powerful tool driven by the intellectual participation of women from diverse contexts.

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Fight and Build: Envisioning Solidarity Economies as Transformative Politics

NonProfit Quarterly

These practices and their associated values—cooperation, sustainability, justice, interdependence, autonomy—make possible a transformative vision. In some locations, solidarity economy is institutionalized and recognized by the state but in others involves civil society and informal practices.

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Others may worry that debt-for-climate swaps will raise questions about their ability to repay their debts, thereby reducing their access to credit markets. To accomplish this, the IMF and World Bank can coordinate and collaborate with other creditors to align their policies and practices on debt swaps.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

As such, we cannot take any of our rights—be it freedom, democracy, or survival—at face value. The same oligarchs who control financial markets buy up mass media and influence political decisions consistently in their own interest.