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The Societal Role of Social Entrepreneurship

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Theodore Lechterman & Johanna Mair The field of social entrepreneurship often takes its normative foundations for granted. Social enterprises seek to address social problems using business strategies. Understanding how social innovation directly affects people’s lives is essential.

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  Freedom To Fight For DEI: How Legal Battles Affect Leadership Policies, Commitment

Fundraising Leadership

It’s about far more than public displays on social media, recruiting initiatives, one and done anti-bias and anti-harassment trainings.” It also bans policies or programs with ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ in their names,” reports the global law firm, Skadden. A study conducted shortly after the U.S. #DEI

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Innovating to Address the Systemic Drivers of Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Life expectancy can differ up to 30 years in the US between different zip codes in the same state, indicating the significance of socioeconomic, environmental, and social factors in driving health outcomes. There are communities like hers all over America. We call these factors the Systemic Drivers of Health. Image by the authors.

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Putting Health at the Center of Climate Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

As with their environmental footprints, companies need to evaluate how and when they can support health and livelihoods across the full range of their business activities, and then take action across their supply and value chains. For example, the Forever Better financing program incentivizes suppliers to work on climate and social issues.

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Impact Without Imposition: What Role for Northern Academics in the Global South?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Georg von Richthofen & Ali Aslan Gümüsay This year, our institute published several studies as part of the research project Sustainability, Entrepreneurship, and Global Digital Transformation (SET) based on activities in seven countries in the Global South. In Benin, for example, we focused on sustainable entrepreneurship.

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Building Community Capacity in Rural East Texas: The Long Lift

NonProfit Quarterly

Combined with other data that reveal our rural communities to be sicker and poorer than the state and nation, these facts have by necessity moved the search for solutions from activities and projects to systems and structures. The barriers to change are real and persistent.

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The Future of Family Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

If families reflect deeply in this moment on their philanthropic purpose, pace, power, and practices, and carefully choose their future path in this rapidly changing world, they will not only expand their impact but can fundamentally change the norms of our entire sector and help catalyze broader social transformation. Many already are.