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Innovating to Address the Systemic Drivers of Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Yet, in our siloed and disease focused healthcare systems, the root causes for poor health and disparities go largely ignored. Governments and their policies in far off places can affect food supply or the spread of disease at home and can go further to impact elections, social policy, and even violent conflicts with loss of life.

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How to Restore the Care in Long-Term Nursing Care

NonProfit Quarterly

This article is, with publisher permission, adapted from a more extensive journal article, “ A Tax Credit Proposal for Profit Moderation and Social Mission Maximization in Long-Term Residential Care Businesses ” published last year by Nonprofit Policy Forum. ESOPs also provide workers with important governance rights.

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Leading Together for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For a social sector organization or any other system to do this, it must ask: Are we prepared to make room for people to practice leadership in ways that differ from conventional management styles? Take the Center for Law and Social Policy , a nonprofit committed to reducing poverty and increasing economic opportunity.