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Innovating to Address the Systemic Drivers of Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Historically, the Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) has been used as a term to capture these important upstream, non-medical drivers of health. A Call for Entrepreneurship Many entrepreneurs choose health care as a venue for innovation because it is one of the sectors where one can do well by doing good.

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The Social Impact Investment Mirage

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The False Binary Between For-profits and Nonprofits: Where the Troubles Begin. We decided early on to incorporate NeedsList as a for-profit, purpose-driven company. We bought into the notion that a for-profit company was the way to scale and achieve impact. We weren’t alone. ” Investors interrogated our decision. .”

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How transactional donor relationships kill generosity

iMarketSmart

Footnotes: [1] In experiments, giving to family members always exceeds giving to non-family members. Personality and altruism in the dictator game: Relationship to giving to kin, collaborators, competitors, and neutrals. Asia Pacific Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Ben-Ner, A., & Kramer, A. H., & Lee, H.

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The 2016 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors. The Washington Non-Profit Legal Tax Conference is dedicated to educating those in the nonprofit world responsible for all legal and accounting aspects as they pertain to exempt organizations.

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

Opportunity Collaboration. Opportunity Collaboration. Opportunity Collaboration / Cancún Yucatán, (Int.) Participants will network and learn about other areas of practice, discuss a range of opportunities and challenges faced by different sectors, and work collaboratively to improve impact measurement. Oct 9 - 14.