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Innovating to Address the Systemic Drivers of Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Yet, in our siloed and disease focused healthcare systems, the root causes for poor health and disparities go largely ignored. A Call for Entrepreneurship Many entrepreneurs choose health care as a venue for innovation because it is one of the sectors where one can do well by doing good.

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No Lie: Gabrielle Union on How Entrepreneurs Can Create Success

Fundraising Leadership

To address these challenges, Take The Lead will launch two cohorts of 50 Women Can Change The World in Entrepreneurship in September 2023. Read more in Take The Lead on social justice entrepreneurship In her own production company, Union says, “We can take big swings and we are not bound by someone else’s imagination.

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Trust Is The Best Currency: CEO, Founder Stamps Approval on Products for Parents

Fundraising Leadership

and across the globe, Vinderine has a long history of intention and entrepreneurship, but one first met with skepticism. “ and across the globe, @PTPASharon has a long history of intention and #entrepreneurship. “ As the founder and CEO of @PTPA, an awards-based platform with 200,000 community members in the U.S.

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Secure Your Intention: Why You Need To Power Up At Women’s Equality Day Conference

Fundraising Leadership

The results showed that “female business network initiatives may constitute an inclusive policy of women entrepreneurship,” and lead to more success. Healthcare is an industry besieged by a gender pay gap, as a high percentage of the healthcare workforce identify as women.

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I Owe You an Update

Fundraising Leadership

In the pre-pandemic past, your contributions have enabled us to provide this 3-month intensive part-in-person and part-virtual training and coaching programs plus three months of follow-up to women in the nonprofit and public service sector, journalism, media and entertainment, healthcare, and law. I can’t yet share more information.

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Nonprofit Boards Efforts to Diversify

NonProfit Quarterly

The Value of Lived Experience The value of lived experiences for leaders is a topic that has been explored in other fields, such as social entrepreneurship —and it’s now being adapted to nonprofit boards. However, my experience is not exceptional. Several years ago, she was asked to serve on the foundation’s board of directors.

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Ending Persistent Poverty in Rural America: The Role of CDFIs

NonProfit Quarterly

Here are a few vignettes of how this works: Supporting Entrepreneurship : Back in 2018, a nurse practitioner with over a decade’s experience opened an urgent care facility in her hometown of Clarksdale, MS. Moreover, the business provides critical services to an area with few healthcare options.

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