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Collaboration Across Social Boundaries: A Practical Guide

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Karl Haushalter & Paul Steinberg A local public health official has been tasked with increasing vaccine use in an underserved community. An entrepreneur hoping to market affordable solar finds it necessary to collaborate with architects, materials scientists, and roofing contractors.

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How ‘Productizing’ Innovative Finance Hurts Development

Stanford Social Innovation Review

But this proliferation highlights a troubling trend: The “productization” of innovative finance for development, which attempts to create and market new, standardized financial products like the commercial finance sector. Productization makes the product the end instead of a means.

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Dismantling Bias: Toward Ethical and Inclusive Health Innovation

NonProfit Quarterly

Advancing innovations that lead to equitable and sustainable solutions in the healthcare system requires interrogating the inequities embedded within research, design, and testing processes for novel health solutions, as well as diversifying the people involved at each stage.

Health 66
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Health and Climate Solutions From Cities Around the World

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It also has an adverse impact on workforce productivity and inflicts economic losses on workers whose health and working conditions are affected by extreme heat. Necessary Collaboration in the Face of Global Challenges The fact that cities shouldn’t go at it alone became especially clear during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Health 98
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Human-Centered Design for Behavioral Health

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Reneé Thompson on unsplash.com COVID-19 impacted the physical health of millions across the country, hitting marginalized communities the hardest. Less visible was the pandemic’s impact on behavioral health, an umbrella term for mental health, substance use disorders, and life stressors.

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Housing Justice and Systems Change Through a Funder Collaborative

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Many of FHO’s founders were part of the growing movement toward funder collaboratives as a way to have more efficiency, impact, and engagement with peers and practitioners. A 2021 Bridgespan Group survey of 100 funder collaboratives found that nearly three-fourths had been formed since 2010, and nearly half since 2015.

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Sabbaticals: A Gateway to Reimagining Health

NonProfit Quarterly

The piece struck a chord with many NPQ readers, as it did for the Health Justice desk. Looking back on that time offline, I recognize how important it was to my work as a health justice practitioner to create space for play, creativity, and dreaming. million fund to enable sabbaticals for BIPOC leaders.

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