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When It Comes to Promoting Prosperity, Production Beats Consumption

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In this sense, many international development philanthropies are neglecting the most powerful route to prosperity: productive employment in a thriving economy. Historically, these resources have only materialized when countries have achieved massive expansions of economic productivity and opportunity. The empirical record is clear.

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How Investors Can Shape AI for the Benefit of Workers

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For example, think of a nurse manager or a teacher who no longer needs to devote 40% of their time to jockeying a schedule or designing slides and worksheets. Nearly one in five home healthcare aides lives in poverty. It is true that jobs will be lost in these areas. But the ones that remain may become higher quality and higher paying.

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Betting on Migration for Impact

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Even the US and UK have shown that immigration politics can be separated from workforce development, and seek to expand programs for well-managed migration to address labor needs in some key sectors. Meanwhile, countries on the “sending” side are positioning themselves to seek greater access to foreign labor markets.

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What Nigeria Can Teach the US About Food Insecurity

NonProfit Quarterly

In Nigeria, as in the US, people are looking for ways to fight food insecurity and maintain agricultural production amidst climate change and the changing rainfall patterns—including increased flooding—that it is triggering. Some farmers are still grappling with the destruction. However, she notes that agroforestry offers a way forward.

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Taking Steps Toward Disability Inclusion in China

Stanford Social Innovation Review

While organizations like the China Disabled Persons’ Federation aim to support the rights and interests of disabled individuals through assistance obtaining welfare subsidies and other services, only the most severely disabled individuals qualify for government financial aid. Narrative change is paramount for system change.

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The State of Mental Health Support in Climate Emergencies

NonProfit Quarterly

According to the American Psychiatric Association (APA), this destabilization can lead to “cumulative community stress, increases in poverty, domestic violence, substance abuse, and forced migration.” Because they must rely on parents and other adult caregivers for safety and support, including mental health interventions.

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What Does Tribal Land Stewardship Look Like?

NonProfit Quarterly

The climate crisis is not only a product of greenhouse gas emissions… but also of an ideological shift that was imposed by colonization and capitalism to justify violation of sacred land-, water-, and airways—domination that taught Americans to speak of “resources” instead of “relatives.”. Cargill Philanthropies. Eric Henson et al.,