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Lessons From the Failures of Covax

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Establish clear, realistic, and dynamic country-level objectives and action plans maintained by national governments. COVAX and donors should have followed their lead and supported bottom-up, country-driven leadership in service of a more equitable recovery.

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Equity in The Balance: Catalyst Winners On DEI Tools To Change Work Culture

Fundraising Leadership

At their recent Catalyst Awards 2023, the global nonprofit founded in 1962 to “accelerate and advance women into leadership” applauded an exceptional roster of those at the helms of “forward-thinking organizations that are developing new and innovative ways to advance gender equity and strengthen their organizations.”

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Segregation Helped Build Fortunes. What Does Philanthropy Owe Now?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

A subset of funders have started to shift resources into the hands of advocates calling upon the government to undergo a process of redress and repair. This move recognizes the federal government as, in the words of scholars William A. It was profitable to do so. As historian N.D.B.

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Should We Build New Homes in a Burning World?

NonProfit Quarterly

With the increase of new industries in the area has come a flood of new construction; thousands of workers at a new car manufacturing plant, for example, need a place to live. A Burden on Local Governments Despite the need for housing, is it simply too risky to build in areas of the country at highest risk for climate disaster?

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Of Myths and Markets: Moving Beyond the Capitalist God That Failed Us

NonProfit Quarterly

Conway of Caltech, titled The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market , examines the role of corporate propaganda. Musgrave offers a more satisfying answer, writing, “I understand neoliberalism as a governing rationality that directs state action in favor of the market” (177).

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Putting Health at the Center of Climate Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Whatever specific approach a business takes to achieve this, it must make environmental and societal sustainability integral to its operations, and secure the full support of leadership so that all decisions, investments, innovations, and measurement systems are meaningfully embedded into the business. Here are five ways to start.

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Pick up Steam: Are Efforts To Get More Women, Girls in STEM, Tech Working?  

Fundraising Leadership

Women in government STEM jobs, including those in the Air Force, Army, Navy, the energy and transportation departments, departments of Veterans Affairs, State, Interior, Homeland Security, Defense and Commerce, in 13 years increased from 25.33% to 25.63%. Leila Jaafar, CEO and Founder, NUCLIDIUM