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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.

Finance 119
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Grounding Leadership in Community Wisdom

Stanford Social Innovation Review

When the pandemic and government lockdown eliminated urban jobs, hundreds of thousands of people left Peru’s cities and walked home to their ancestral homelands. Community-Driven, Collective Leadership Community-driven, collective leadership is tough to measure or understand using surveys or quantitative research methodologies.

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Rethinking Scale in Climate Solutions

Stanford Social Innovation Review

There is common infrastructure, such as a savings and credit union, multi-sectoral cooperatives for storage of agricultural products and a farmer’s bank, and a network of agroecology schools. Grassroots movements accelerate scaling through distributed impact and leadership. Relationships.

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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.

Finance 121
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Day in the Life of a Nonprofit Communicator – Janis Walton

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Janis’ background includes a variety of nonprofit leadership roles. We are starting with ten communities and the Haitian government has agreed to give us 11 acres per community. We will also be providing agricultural development and a Food 4 Work program. Their emphasis is on sustainable development and job creation.

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Food Is Her Fight and Her Freedom: Regaining Ground in Rural India

Stanford Social Innovation Review

With 65 percent of the population living in rural areas, agriculture is increasingly feminized where women perform 80 percent of farm work. In several of these cooperatives, either governments or civil society or development institutions have played roles as catalysts to sow the initial seeds.

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Putting Health at the Center of Climate Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Whatever specific approach a business takes to achieve this, it must make environmental and societal sustainability integral to its operations, and secure the full support of leadership so that all decisions, investments, innovations, and measurement systems are meaningfully embedded into the business. Here are five ways to start.

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