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Recycla Chile, Latin America’s first e-waste recycling company, reclaims value from discarded electronics and marginalized people.
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Ellen Goodman - Civic Ventures 2009 Innovation Summit
When it comes to aging baby boomers, "the personal is political" is still a strong rallying cry for people engaged in social enterprise. In this audio lecture, sponsored by the Center for Social Innovation, the ever-lively Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Ellen Goodman looks at redefining aging and how we may continue to make meaningful contributions to our families, communities, and country into the elder years.
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Women Hold Both Sky and Solutions
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Sheryl WuDunn and Nicholas Kristof
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An Environmental Provocateur
Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto by Stewart Brand
Research: Strong Women, Strong Sector
The more empowered a country's women, the more vibrant its nonprofit sector.
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In adopting data-driven practices, leaders must design and implement programs in ways that engage community members directly in the work of social change.
Inside Switzerland’s Radical Drug Policy Innovation
A look at how Switzerland radically and successfully changed its approach to drug policy following a heroin epidemic in the late 1980s and 90s, and what the effort teaches us about the social innovation process.