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Weekly update from PND

Candid

Co-founded in 2017 by Wellcome and the Gates Foundation with commitments of $100 million each, CEPI works with vaccine developers, manufacturers, governments, philanthropies, civil society, and global health organizations to find solutions to diseases. Lilly Endowment commits $20 million to preserve Black churches.

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Lessons From the Failures of Covax

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In retrospect, we can see with a borderless threat like COVID-19, collaboration was stymied across and within countries: Lacking clearly defined and owned targets, country responses often failed to meaningfully engage civil society.

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Choosing AI’s Impact on the Future of Work

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It was these earlier forms of automation that contributed to the decline of American manufacturing employment and the huge increase in inequality over the last four decades. Neither the tech industry nor other large corporations will undertake a huge course correction without strong pressure from others in society.

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Why Reparations Can Counter the Legacy of a 50-Year “War on Drugs”

NonProfit Quarterly

The War on Drugs Is Personal The War on Drugs has been a half-century-long, concerted, militarized campaign led by the US government to enforce prohibitions on the importation, manufacture, use, sale, and distribution of substances deemed to be illegal, advancing a punitive rather than a public health approach to drug use.

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Unlocking the Potential of Open 990 Data

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Even with augmentation, a sector that accounts for over 10 percent of the nation’s private employment and provides more jobs than the manufacturing industry shouldn’t have to rely solely on a network of volunteers for access to basic summary data.

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Investing in Enterprises That Work for Everyone

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The clothing manufacturer and retailer Patagonia is now controlled by a PPT, while Newman’s Own is foundation-owned. Steward ownership models are highly flexible and are typically applied in contexts where a company has a strong mission (e.g., providing renewable energy or healthy food).

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Recentering Philanthropy toward Social Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

CS: Well, it’s really interesting, because NPQ is, I think, the only media organization in civil society that’s not focused exclusively on philanthropy. Movement leaders were asking for it. Nonprofit leaders were asking for it. Funders were asking for it.” And it’s really interesting to me how much philanthropy still wants from us.