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Innovating to Address the Systemic Drivers of Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

How can health innovations help people like Elisa whose health is dramatically impacted by factors like clean air, healthy food, a safe home, and access to health care, education, and a job that can sustain her family? Lack of access to education can make the difference between good and poor health.

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A Primer for Incubating Child Care Businesses

NonProfit Quarterly

Back in 2019, during a listening tour of the seven rural Maine counties that border Canada, we learned that many people—predominantly women with a passion for early childhood education—would like to start a home- or facility-based childcare but lack the business acumen and confidence to get started. We turn to each of these themes below.

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Building Community Capacity in Rural East Texas: The Long Lift

NonProfit Quarterly

Borrowing language from recent findings on rural entrepreneurship, rural philanthropy should be understood as “a distinct phenomenon worthy of distinct focus.” So how can rural philanthropy meet this moment? To access this funding, rural communities need to build and mobilize inclusive organizing structures and financing mechanisms.

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A Modern Nonprofit Podcast: What it Takes to Start a Nonprofit Organization

The Charity CFO

Outside of a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology with a Masters degree in Christian Leadership, Dr. White also has a Masters degree in Mind, Brain, and Education from Harvard University. Education is a major variable here, because the need that is sought after fulfilling may not necessarily require a 501c3 classification.

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Putting Health at the Center of Climate Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For example, the Forever Better financing program incentivizes suppliers to work on climate and social issues. The program is now starting to provide access to financing, as well as health services in countries such as Indonesia and Mexico, including guidance on self-care, nutrition, and family planning.

Health 122
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National Gathering Looks to Address Root Causes of Inequality

NonProfit Quarterly

As Young laments, “by declining to directly consider race in bank evaluations under the CRA, the regulators haven’t maximized their opportunity to turn the tide on racial homeownership, entrepreneurship, and wealth gaps.” Flying Blind in Small Business Data “Flying blind.” As Espinoza put it, “Are we supporting tenants in our cities?

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Scaling Deep, Not Up: Lessons from Detroit

NonProfit Quarterly

Leaders in many places facing economic decline—be they post-industrial cities in the Rust Belt or depleted communities in former coal mining towns—are increasingly looking to entrepreneurship as a means of revitalization. Neighborhood book clubs were repurposed as platforms with which to educate pet owners.