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Gather, Share, Build

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Nithya Ramanathan & Jim Fruchterman Recent milestones in generative AI have sent nonprofits, social enterprises, and funders alike scrambling to understand how these innovations can be harnessed for global good. Right now, even the data that does exist is too siloed. Take the example of vaccination records.

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Reimagining the Role of Business in Protecting Biodiversity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Biodiversity Loss and Global Corporations The imminent loss of one million species presents a grave threat, impacting human health, food security, rural communities worldwide, and over half of the global GDP. Instead of constructing a new office, manufacturing or retail site, companies can first restore existing buildings.

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A Guide to Outsourcing for Nonprofit Organizations

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

It is a business practice in which the service seeking company (referred to as customer) hires the services of a third party, commonly referred to as client or service provider, to perform the activities relating to services, manufacturing, development, and other business processes on the behalf of the customer company.

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Great storytelling and marketing lessons from the Stove Man

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

Here’s the background: The Paradigm Project is a social enterprise that strives to replace cooking on open fires with simple, sturdy wood stoves across the developing world. Let’s not try to manufacture something. That’s why I’m always on the hunt for examples of stellar storytelling. And that’s why I sought out the Stove Man.

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64 Online Stores That Benefit Nonprofits and the Greater Good

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Each pair of socks is uniquely designed, ethically manufactured and partnered with a first-class nonprofit to fund impact for the world’s t o-do list: the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. Health & Beauty. The company distributes fish and donates to health organizations worldwide. 4) Fahlo :: myfahlo.com.

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Higher Education Funding & Grant Resources

Bloomerang

The Cornell Douglas Foundation honors nonprofit organizations that “recognize critical needs of communities, seek to minimize risks to the natural world, and believe that each generation should feel a sense of pride in how they hand the baton of environmental health and well-being to future generations.” . Costco Wholesale. Areas served: US.

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Putting Health at the Center of Climate Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

These communities lack access to health care , struggle with food insecurity and water scarcity , and generally have difficulty meeting basic needs. Pharmaceutical maker Moderna , for instance, recently announced that it would build an mRNA vaccine manufacturing facility in Kenya. Here are five ways to start. Supply Chains. Innovation.

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