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Need a Lift? 13 Stories That Inspired Us in 2024

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The Societal Role of Social Entrepreneurship by Theodore Lechterman & Johanna Mair How can social entrepreneurship promote social justice? As in much of Native America, a vibrant cultural revitalization is underway here, bridging past and present and elevating Indigenous worldviews and traditions long suppressed by colonization.

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A model of community ownership, self-determination, and belonging

Candid

Over the decades, they’ve transformed this once-blighted area into an urban village of small businesses, restaurants, and cultural spaces. Through this process, we developed a vision to create a cultural hub and housing campus for refugees and other newcomers–through community ownership.

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Anchoring Communities: How to Combat Displacement Through Asset Ownership

NonProfit Quarterly

Space isn’t just a physical location but rather the foundation for resilience, cultural expression, and long-term autonomy. In many of the same communities facing displacement, space isn’t just a physical location but rather the foundation for resilience, cultural expression, and long-term autonomy. Its focus, like R.A.G.E.

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Thank Heaven For 11: Take The Lead Celebrates 11 Years Working Toward Mission of Equity

Fundraising Leadership

Panels on wealth, health, policy, career pivots, collaboration, and entrepreneurship were part of the day, including awards for Changemaker, Leading Company Award, Leading Advocate Award, and Leading Man Award. Learn more from Kathleen Turner at Power Up Conference 2024. Watch a round up of the Power Up Conference 2023.

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Happy 500! Take The Lead Delivers To You 500 Award-Winning Newsletters

Fundraising Leadership

Covering trends in AI, small business, entrepreneurship, and large corporations, the newsletter offers readers on multiple levels of career development the tools they need to succeed. At a time when so much content is behind a paywall, Take The Leads newsletter is free to subscribers and is delivered each week by email on Tuesdays.

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From Margin to Mainstream: Social Innovation for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

There is an opportunity to infuse public narratives with compelling stories about why and how social innovation works in order to encourage integration into new arenas, from media and pop culture to government and academia. Its supported by Ashoka, Echoing Green, the Skoll Foundation, and the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship.

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Move, Stay, or Pivot? Uncertain Times Make Career Choices Different For Many

Fundraising Leadership

The current economic climate is complicating the career paths of millions due to the factors of unpredictable layoffs, hiring freezes, pay reductions, and a general fear of culture changes and imposed, sudden and unforseeable actions. But it is remarkably different from the Great Resignation sparked by COVID-19.