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Need a Lift? 13 Stories That Inspired Us in 2024

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Closing the Racial Diversity Gap in Medicine by Allison Torres Burtka* A growing body of research shows a positive correlation between the racial diversity of doctors and health outcomes for underserved communities. How Indigenous Wisdom Can Support Youth Mental Health by Virgil Moorehead Jr. One nonprofit is working to change that.

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

Candid

We examined indicators that improve health and life outcomes, including affordable housing, work opportunities, child care, and health care. 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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What’s Next? Why Co-ops Are Essential in the Fight for Democracy

NonProfit Quarterly

This caricature ignores their deep roots in Black economic self-help , immigrant entrepreneurship, labor organizing, and rural mutualism. The dominant narrative , however, still paints co-ops as quaint, inefficient, or niche “alternative” holdovers from the 1970s.

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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. The recent 2024 Power Up Conference and Concert with the theme, Together We Lead was held in Washington, D.C.

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We Just Lost $54 Billion. Now What?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Cuts to nutrition spending could cost the lives of an additional 200,000 children this year, while wider cuts to global health funding could affect an estimated 25 million people worldwide over the next 15 years. Lives hang in the balance. The IRC isn’t alone.

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CDFIs Transform Rural Economies. We Just Need to Get Them There.

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Temple Foundation was advised that there are reasons that CDFI offices are not based in East Texas, the main reason being that there is simply not enough entrepreneurship activity or business opportunities to sustain their operations. There is simply not enough focus by philanthropy on rural America to solve any one of these inequities.

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From Margin to Mainstream: Social Innovation for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Advocates for community health workers have executed this playbook beautifully by developing new financing mechanisms that aggregate private funding from corporate and philanthropic partners, which major institutions like the Global Fund then match.