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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.

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Housing and Climate: Funding Holistic Solutions

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Property values shoot up, as does the cost of living, and lower-income households are displaced. We desperately need both mitigation and adaptation—and that means we cannot simply focus on exciting new products and technologies. by storing solar energy), and thinking about what happens to housing after major climate events.

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Fisheries and Stewardship: Lessons from Native Hawaiian Aquaculture

NonProfit Quarterly

2 In this, loko i‘a served a sophisticated and essential role in protein production, producing an estimated 300 pounds of fish per acre per year. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, globalization and advancements in refrigeration and transportation transformed food production and thus environmental stewardship practices globally.

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“Educational Purposes”: Nonprofit Land as a Vital Site of Struggle

NonProfit Quarterly

A young adult explained how Yale’s expansion into the neighborhood was a direct agent of violence, both raising property values and pushing youth into dangerous enemy gang territory. The greater value of campus land is in its nonprofit tax- exempt status, which serves as a financial shelter for profitable research and private investors.