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Collaboration Across Social Boundaries: A Practical Guide

Stanford Social Innovation Review

An entrepreneur hoping to market affordable solar finds it necessary to collaborate with architects, materials scientists, and roofing contractors. Simply put, social change requires social collaboration. They have also pointed us to some essential best practices for anyone setting out to collaborate across boundaries.

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A Partnership Industry for Impactful Ed-Tech

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Such partnership not only fosters the kind of inclusive resource sharing that would prioritize marginalized groups and embrace diverse perspectives, but only through such collaboration can ed-tech be elevated to prioritize education over technology. Hence, achieving balance across these pathways is preferable to excelling in just one aspect.

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How the Climate Crisis is Changing Mental Healthcare

NonProfit Quarterly

For example, foregrounds the experiences of communities of color in the environmental justice movement. Organizations like Force of Nature and the Climate Psychology Alliance facilitate climate cafes—spaces that involve sharing eco-anxiety with others under the guidance of trained professionals.

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In Search of Inclusive Social Entrepreneurship

Stanford Social Innovation Review

We found that in Brazil, social entrepreneurs from poor communities differ significantly from those from higher social classes, especially in terms of their access to financial, human, psychological, and social capital. Let us look at these types of capital one by one.

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Taking Steps Toward Disability Inclusion in China

Stanford Social Innovation Review

percent of the population, China has enacted more than 60 laws and regulations aimed at safeguarding the rights of individuals with disabilities, encompassing those with visual, auditory, linguistic, physical, intellectual, psychological, and multiple disabilities. With 85 million people with disabilities, or 6.5

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Dr. James explains why the feeling “People like me make gifts like this” is so powerful in major gifts fundraising

iMarketSmart

It [proposes] a new mechanism of decision making in charitable giving through an important psychological construct: similarity.”[23] Similarly, a study of ultra-high-net-worth donors found, “nearly 60% report collaborating with other funders.”[32] Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 42 (2-3), 248-265; Ebeling, F., Adler (Eds.),

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Pro-Black Organizations Lead the Way for Workplace Mental Health and Wellbeing

NonProfit Quarterly

Even the American Psychological Association acknowledges the country is “facing a national mental health crisis that could yield serious health and social consequences for years to come.” 9 The reverse is also true: “low levels of social connection are associated with declines in physical and psychological health.”

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