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Need a Lift? 13 Stories That Inspired Us in 2024

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Yielding Power to Youth by Kate Lord & Janae Phillips Leaders at Shes the First, a global organization that teams up with grassroots leaders to make sure girls are educated, respected, and heard, share what theyve learned from making the leap into youth-led advocacy campaigns.

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In Search of Inclusive Social Entrepreneurship

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DJ Bola could fully realize the potential of his venture and started to attend events and form connections within the social entrepreneurship ecosystem. Furthermore, our research revealed that the unequal structure of Brazilian society is reproduced in the field of social entrepreneurship through two mechanisms.

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From Margin to Mainstream: Social Innovation for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Were in a period of polycrisis, yet the business world, government, and civil society persist in their siloed approaches to solving it. Its supported by Ashoka, Echoing Green, the Skoll Foundation, and the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. So, whats the next step?

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Can Nonprofits Escape Corporate Capture?

NonProfit Quarterly

At the same time, within this austerity framework, nonprofits increasingly fill holes in sectors ranging from education to healthcare to journalism to social services that we depend on the most and that have been receiving less and less government support. There’s also the kind of “emotional labor” involved in courting individual donors. “In

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What’s in a Name? The Ethics of Building Naming Gifts

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For the past three decades, I have guided museums, nonprofit arts organizations, and higher education institutions in planning, programming, fundraising for, and promoting new or renovated cultural facilities that fulfill mission imperatives. Or are there certain moral and civic goods that markets do not honor and money cannot buy?”

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Starting With the State

Stanford Social Innovation Review

A recent report found that in seven African countries, deficient governance systems are the key obstacle limiting national educational goals. Justice systems are often inaccessible or ineffectual; in India, for example, the criminal and civil courts are so backed up that it would take an estimated 300 years to clear the backlog.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Women’s Empowerment Organizations

Bloomerang

This foundation provides approximately $130 million each year in total grant activity supporting nonprofits that provide direct services in the areas of Housing, Health, Jobs, Education, and Community Services. They fund nonprofit organizations that support Education, Family, and Health & Wellness. Chicago Foundation For Women.