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Not Invented, But Scaled Here

Stanford Social Innovation Review

On one hand, social enterprises and other small innovative organizations can be an engine for conceptualizing, designing, testing, and validating new solutions to old problems. Community Health Entrepreneurs earned a better living. Seventy-five percent of first-time eyeglass wearers in the pilot were women.

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How a Holistic Human Approach Can Improve Nonprofit Success

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

For instance, people experiencing homelessness frequently face other obstacles, like substance abuse or mental health challenges, that are interrelated to their housing instability. Social stigma, physical limitations, and psychological barriers prevent many people from seeking the support they need. Asking for help is hard.

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Impact Markets: The Next Frontier

Stanford Social Innovation Review

If environmental outcomes can become assets, why can’t social outcomes? Social impact, totaling $72.05 trillion in terms of government social spend, philanthropy, and S-themed ESG assets under management could be considered the world’s largest financial market today.

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3 Powerful Virtual Fundraising Ideas for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

On the other hand, global processes like collaboration against climate change, protests against social inequality and racism (#BlackLivesMatter), or social movement against sexual harassment and abuse (#metoo) have brought nonprofits even more prominence. Donations and Government Grants. 3 Tips to Raise Funds Online.

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Reimagining the Role of Business in Protecting Biodiversity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Biodiversity Loss and Global Corporations The imminent loss of one million species presents a grave threat, impacting human health, food security, rural communities worldwide, and over half of the global GDP. In this realm, Google has collaborated with various scientists and conservation organizations.

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How to Advance a Regenerative Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

To transform our economy, we need to network, learn, ideate, iterate, and resource the work together as nonprofits, for-profits, community leaders and members, philanthropic institutions, governments, donors, and investors. Our organizations have started to map and build these networks in the Seattle area and Washington state.

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Making Food Systems Work for People of Color: Six Action Steps

NonProfit Quarterly

Yet, all too often, their investments inadvertently exacerbate inequitable power dynamics in communities, reinforcing existing disparities and underlying health and wealth-building challenges. EFOD stands for “equitable food-oriented development.”

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