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From Margin to Mainstream: Social Innovation for Systems Change
Embedding social innovation across sectors is how we drive more durable systemic change. Even in the most challenging times, here are three ways to do that.
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From Unpaid to Unstoppable: The Rise of the Professional Community Health Worker Movement
Health coalitions did the research, coordinated with donors, and secured strong government buy-in. Now, community health workers are finally getting the credit—and pay—they deserve.
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From Uprooted to Uplifted: The Movement to Restore Indigenous Land Rights
Indigenous and local community-centered solutions to deforestation are among the most effective and enduring strategies for mitigating climate change. Social innovators in these communities pioneered a new playbook for getting the world to take notice.
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Orchestrators of Change and the Journey to Transformation
This follow-up to “Social Innovation and the Journey to Transformation,” sponsored by the Skoll Foundation, explores how bold social innovators shift systems through collective action. The series offers adaptable playbooks for social innovators, partners, and funders to learn from and apply to their work.
From the Past to the Future
How philanthropy can help build a more resilient and equitable food system through agroecology
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What Is Community Anyway?
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.
Working Wikily
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.