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Zero-Problem Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NGOs scaled solutions to educational problems in India for decades without sufficient reading or math improvement. An Inspiration In the eyes of medical experts , the future of medicine is to prioritize keeping people healthy for longer periods. Medicine 3.0: Medicine 2.0 is oriented towards the past: moving away from illness.

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A Primer for Incubating Child Care Businesses

NonProfit Quarterly

Without access to quality childcare, many parents cannot work full time and become trapped in a cycle of poverty. The need to develop more childcare businesses is obvious, but how to build and sustain viable childcare businesses is not. What can be done to address this gap? Coastal Enterprises, Inc.,

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Organizing a Community Around Food Sovereignty

NonProfit Quarterly

In the series, urban and rural grassroots leaders from across the United States share how their communities are developing and implementing strategies—grounded in local places, cultures, and histories—to shift power and achieve systemic change. Black excellence abounds here.

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Changing the Health System: A Community-Led Approach Rises in Rhode Island

NonProfit Quarterly

I could see those patients in my office, give them some medication, and see them again at their follow-up appointment a month later, their situation basically unchanged—or I could do something different. Connecticut and Delaware have also created similar community-rooted collaboratives.

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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

Often, the very same nonprofit that is advocating for social justice policy may pay its own workers poverty-level wages. Nelson Colón of the Puerto Rico Community Foundation, and Clara Miller, president emerita of the Heron Foundation—come from philanthropy. The other five work for nonprofit intermediary organizations.