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How Global Talent Enriches a Global Health Organization

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Vital Strategies, the New York-based public health nonprofit I’ve led for the past two decades, employs nearly 400 people in 16 countries. At Vital Strategies, we consider our global diversity to be our strength, and a powerful asset in our mission to reimagine public health for everyone.

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10 Ways Funders Can Address Generative AI Now

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Others, like the Ford, MacArthur, and Hewlett Foundations, and Omidyar Network, have focused on building the capacity to address the risks and opportunities posed by a wide range of technologies, including, but not limited to, artificial intelligence. Building government (and civil society) capacity to use AI. The future is now.

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Can Cities Be the Source of Scalable Innovations?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

What little optimism remains to tackle such complex challenges is mostly placed in supranational schemes, such as the COP climate change conferences, or transformational national policy, such as the Green New Deal in the US. ” Scaling up social innovation takes time, but there are also varying ways it can be done.

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Invest in Networks for Exponential Climate Wins

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Google solved the problem with networks : By engineering connections among hundreds of thousands of computers, Google radically expanded what their search technology could do. But networks are not only key to speed and scale in the technology sector; the same is true for ambitious climate policy.

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Lessons From the Failures of Covax

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Trevor Zimmer In May, the COVID-19 national public health emergency officially ended. As the world emerges from this period of death, economic displacement, and social reordering, it will take years to fully understand how the pandemic impacted households, communities, and countries.

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Moreover, developing countries typically lack key technologies and financial resources that could help them become more resilient to climate change and its impacts. For debtors, there may be political resistance, a lack of public support, or concerns about unintended consequences or trade-offs.

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

A study on the working conditions in Kenya’s gig economy , for example, was written by two African researchers, who not only surveyed hundreds of gig workers but also involved civil society and policy makers during a multi-stakeholder dialogue and a panel discussion in Nairobi.