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Walking Through Truth: Indigenous Wisdom and Community Health Equity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Races and ethnicities in the United States are defined by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Current measurements of poverty commonly used to assess social determinants of health include concepts such as financial income and home or land ownership. Unfortunately, most tribes were living in poverty.

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Coffee Companies That Emphasize Hiring Disabled Workers Fall Short

NonProfit Quarterly

When I asked for the bill to be corrected, a nondisabled manager quickly came to help her. When I told him I had ordered a butter croissant, the manager stepped in again, telling me that the cashier made a mistake and apologizing for not having any butter croissants left. When I looked down to pay, it read €700 instead of €7.

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A Framework for Business Action on Climate Justice

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The report is just one of many clarion calls to act urgently, not just on climate change but also on climate justice: the process of finding solutions to climate change that also address social inequities due to gender, race, ethnicity, geography, income, and other factors. The framework consists of a three-by-seven axis.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

We know there’s a deep hunger in movements for an economy that people collectively own and democratically manage. 11 Nor are the economic data any more encouraging when one measures inequality by race. Until quite recently, many economic justice movement organizations were “race neutral” in their approach.

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In Search of Inclusive Social Entrepreneurship

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Several studies have shown that in societies that are characterized by high levels of poverty, the well-being of entrepreneurs is related to the savings they have. Currently, one of the most successful social entrepreneurs in Brazil is Edu Lyra who created Gerando Falcões, an organization that combats hunger and poverty.

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Zero-Problem Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

He left his senior management position in Austria and purchased desert land North of Cairo where he and his family relocated. Proponents of this positive psychology movement argue that poor people should not be “completely defined by their poverty, nor can they be fully understood in its terms alone.”

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Movements Are Leading the Way: Reenvisioning and Redesigning Laws and Governance for a Just Energy Utility Transition

NonProfit Quarterly

Energy is increasingly managed as part of a broader commons, where resources and land are shared and mineral inputs to renewable energy and storage like lithium and cobalt are minimized. 26 Before their commoditization, energy sources were freely provided by the earth and typically managed in the commons. See also Deborah A.

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