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Innovating to Address the Systemic Drivers of Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Life expectancy can differ up to 30 years in the US between different zip codes in the same state, indicating the significance of socioeconomic, environmental, and social factors in driving health outcomes. There are communities like hers all over America. We call these factors the Systemic Drivers of Health. Image by the authors.

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How to Restore the Care in Long-Term Nursing Care

NonProfit Quarterly

Here, by social financing, we refer primarily to impact investing and social impact bonds (Geobey and Harji 2014; Han, Chen, and Toepler 2020; Rosenman 2019). Journal of European Social Policy 22 (4): 377–91. Social Finance in North America.” Global Social Policy 14 (2): 74–277. Himmelweit, and M.

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Local Collaboration Can Drive Global Progress on the SDGs

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Their experiences show how the interdependencies of the SDGs come to life at the local level: Ending homelessness requires addressing issues of poverty, mental and physical health, quality employment, environmental justice, and climate change—in addition to safe and affordable housing.

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The Challenge to Power

NonProfit Quarterly

5 As they did, many became politicized; so, they began pushing for economic and social policies that would end discrimination and redistribute resources to the masses at home and abroad. involvement in the war in Vietnam, champion a new environmentalism, and further a variety of other public causes.

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Why the Social Sector Needs an Impact Registry

Stanford Social Innovation Review

How it’s helped: Carbon registries help environmental project developers get carbon credits by collecting, verifying, and tracking outcomes. When a credit is sold, the serial number for the reduction is transferred from the account of the seller to an account for the buyer.

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Capitalism, the Insecurity Machine: A Conversation with Astra Taylor

NonProfit Quarterly

Because the things we are up against, movements for economic, political, or environmental justice, are huge industries, entrenched systems, and habits of thought. How can recognizing shared insecurity spur social change and create a strategy to redefine security? It’s hard to be comfortable with failure. What would this let us create?