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From Uprooted to Uplifted: The Movement to Restore Indigenous Land Rights

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It demonstrated that when innovative leaders empower proximate communities, orchestrate strategic collaboration across sectors and geographies, and unlock creative capital, they dont just challenge the status quothey leap past it, catapulting systemic change forward. Their effort was not an outlier. This short film by If Not Us Then Who?

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How Nonprofits Can Leverage Their Financial Relationships to Advance Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Getty Images on Unsplash Consider a food bank discovering that its operating reserves are in banks that finance industrial agriculture, the very system contributing to food insecurity and displacing small community farms. Its slow, but it works. What might building strategic relationships look like?

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Gather, Share, Build

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Even those in competition with one anotherfor example, different purveyors of agricultural planning tools in low-income countriescan achieve co-benefits and amplify their impact by contributing to a shared data infrastructure. And funders need to lead the way by establishing and investing in common infrastructures and hubs for collaboration.

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Impact Investing for the Missing Middle in Agri-Finance

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The Missing Middle Agriculture is a central economic pillar in rural communities, especially in developing countries. In some developing countries, up to two-thirds of the population are employed in agriculture, a sector that can account for more than 25 percent of GDP. Active involvement in the governance of the investee.

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Building Supply Chains Where Smallholder Farmers Thrive

Stanford Social Innovation Review

To achieve this, more businesses need to join with the government and civil society to actively confront inequality, poverty, and climate change together. Usually, these costs are borne by the weakest link, and in agriculture, that’s the farmer. A Tyranny of Tradeoffs. The Business Path for Addressing Inequality.

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Rethinking Scale in Climate Solutions

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The CLIMA Fund , a collaboration across four public foundations supporting tens of thousands of grassroots groups advancing climate justice solutions, has learned a lot about the diverse and powerful ways grassroots movements create scaled impact. Relationships. Relationships and connectivity are the lifeblood of movement building.

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The AI-Powered Nonprofits Coding a Greener Future

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Creating tools for collaboration and coalition-building : One of the biggest challenges facing the climate movement is aligning initiatives across sectors and making the most out of our collective resources. For small-scale farmers in emerging markets like India, Kenya, and Nigeria, agricultural extension agents are crucial lifelines.