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Innovating to Address the Systemic Drivers of Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

She also lives in a food desert, which makes getting nutritious and affordable food difficult. The nearest fresh food grocer is three miles away, across the 101 freeway. She can afford one big shopping trip in the month and at the end of the month she visits the local food pantry to subsidize until she gets her next paycheck.

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Impact Without Imposition: What Role for Northern Academics in the Global South?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Georg von Richthofen & Ali Aslan Gümüsay This year, our institute published several studies as part of the research project Sustainability, Entrepreneurship, and Global Digital Transformation (SET) based on activities in seven countries in the Global South. In Benin, for example, we focused on sustainable entrepreneurship.

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Building Power in Rural and Tribal Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Though ecologically and culturally rich, the county ranks in the bottom eighth in California for per-capita income. For millennia, oceans, rivers, and forests provided an abundance of food and other resources for the residents of this area, until the late 1800s, when white settlers arrived and began to extract gold and timber.

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Putting Health at the Center of Climate Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

These communities lack access to health care , struggle with food insecurity and water scarcity , and generally have difficulty meeting basic needs. What’s also startling is that climate change is one of this group’s least immediate concerns. Investment.

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¡Adelante! A Latinx Community Organizes to Generate Community Wealth

NonProfit Quarterly

These are the three commercial kitchens that help support food businesses, a retail incubator that offers a storefront called Casa Qui 2 (or “House of Quality”) for Latinx entrepreneurs to sell locally made products, and two farmers market locations to support local producers. These are just two of many examples.

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BOOKMARK THIS: Big List of Twitter Chats for Nonprofits (Chat Tools, Too!)

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Socentchat | Wednesdays @ 1pm ET (social entrepreneurship). culturechat | Every other Thursday @ 1pm ET (generations and culture). FoodFri | Fridays @ 1pm EST (food advocacy). #GrantChat | Tuesdays @ 12pm ET (grants). Npcons | third Tuesday @ 1pm PT (nonprofit consultants). Npmc | last Thursday @ 1pm ET (nonprofit marketing).

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How transactional donor relationships kill generosity

iMarketSmart

Transactional behavior in anthropology Across human cultures, whenever a relationship becomes transactional – or “strictly contingent” – giving stops. Asia Pacific Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Reciprocal altruism in Yanomamö food exchange. Such relationships can be beneficial. 5] This isn’t just for people.