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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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Why the Marguerite Casey Foundation is leveraging its endowment

Candid

Marguerite Casey Foundation (MCF) recently announced a bold $130 million investment to ensure leaders and organizations that best align with our mission have the resources needed to continue critical education efforts, services, and community organizing across the country. In a typical year, MCF distributes around $25 million in grants.

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The Promise and the Power of Social Cooperatives

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Getty Images on iStock The democratization of social care realigns the roles of state and civil society within a larger framework of social and political transformation. Subsequently, the health minister agreed to give the clinic a special status, encouraging the launch of more “super-nurse” clinics across Quebec.

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COVID Was the Rehearsal

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Not for the accolade, but for what it meant: Health care for allincluding those who provide itis not only possible, its happening. It also endangered long-term progress in our work: Disruptions in health services are now nearly as severe as during the COVID-19 pandemic. Frontline workers prioritized. and Catherine T.

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From Uprooted to Uplifted: The Movement to Restore Indigenous Land Rights

Stanford Social Innovation Review

As a leader in the space, RRI plays a coordinating role as one of the fields system orchestrators , and the Skoll Foundation has deepened our understanding of land tenure by supporting and learning from their work. Additionally, social innovators are working to build companies understanding of and support for land tenure.

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Philanthropy during COVID-19 in India

Candid

To understand how the pandemic impacted the philanthropic sector and civil society organizations around the world, we reached out to local experts who shared their observations and experiences over the past two years. Optimistically, philanthropy and civil society have responded with creativity and flexibility.

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What Will It Take to Reimagine Security?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The good news is that there is demonstrable demand for seeding new forms of holistic problem-solving across previously siloed efforts in democracy protection, public health, climate action, social justice, and peace and security.