Recap of SSIR’s 2021 Frontiers of Social Innovation Conference
Insightful quotes and summaries of sessions from the “People, Power, Resources: Enacting an Equitable Future" conference.
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How to Raise $200 Million in Two Months to Battle a Global Crisis
Four principles were key to the success of the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund, a joint effort of the UN Foundation and the World Health Organization to raise hundreds of millions of dollars to help nations around the world survive the pandemic.
Donor Intent Is Critical to Strategic Philanthropy
Far from constraining foundations, donor intent protects them from short-term thinking and liberates their creativity.
Lessons on Effective Collaboration From the California Health Workforce Project
The experience of the California Future Health Workforce Commission to improve the state's supply of health professionals revealed the importance of upfront planning, clear partnering agreements, and graceful ways to pause when things don’t go as planned with highly collaborative efforts to solve complex social problems.
Strengthen Media Literacy to Win the Fight Against Misinformation
If the world is going to stop deliberate or unintentional misinformation and its insidious effects, we need to radically expand and accelerate our counterattacks, particularly human-centered solutions focused on improving people's media and information literacy.
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Our understanding of community can help funders and evaluators identify, understand, and strengthen the communities they work with.
Measuring Social Value
Too many people believe social value is objective, fixed, and stable, when in fact it is subjective, malleable, and variable.
What Everyone Can Learn From Leaders of Color
These leaders’ assets go beyond experiences of oppression or marginalization to include the connection, meaning, and joy they can draw on from their respective cultures and communities.
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A few nonprofits are using social media to fundamentally change the way they work and increase their social impact.
What the Heck Does ‘Equity’ Mean?
A clear definition of equity would seem paramount to galvanizing philanthropy into action around this increasingly used term—but the field is only beginning to explore what it really means.