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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

And if collective action is the fundamental fuel that powers social innovation, the accelerants below enable it to spread and drive impact at exponential speed. This funding has supported advocacy, legal aid, strategic analysis, policy development, community and forest conservation activities, and more.

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From Food Pantry to Urban Farming: Food Justice Lessons from Camden

NonProfit Quarterly

One strategy for achieving that vision is to support urban agriculture and community agency, giving people the chance to produce their own food. Advancing urban agriculture in Camden. Dismantling barriers to food access requires clear strategies and methodologies that inform funding, drive policy, and guide community-based initiatives.

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Rethinking Scale in Climate Solutions

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Yet, philanthropy has often taken too narrow of a view of “scale” when it comes to climate change, focusing on scaling particular strategies, with the goal of creating quantity quickly. By Lindley Mease. The ecological crisis requires urgent, coordinated, and impactful solutions on a level unprecedented in human history.

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Walmart Heirs Bet Big on Journalism

NonProfit Quarterly

Now, they’re expanding their philanthropy to news organizations that report on food, agriculture, and the environment and, in turn, amplifying the family’s other efforts. Journalism is welcoming the new infusion of philanthropy. Notably, Walton family journalism philanthropy is focused in overlapping areas. There’s more.

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Betting on Migration for Impact

Stanford Social Innovation Review

While immigration policies have prioritized high levels of education or family ties—and the political conversation tends to presume a basic scarcity of jobs—critical jobs in construction, agriculture, hospitality, and the care economy, including elderly care, cannot be automated.

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Building Community Capacity in Rural East Texas: The Long Lift

NonProfit Quarterly

Current rural civic infrastructure often operates under a default scarcity mentality because it was designed for a different demographic, social, economic, and technological context, and is no longer fit for purpose. Rural philanthropy, we believe, can make a positive difference. Until we know for sure, we will learn by doing.

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Small Organizations: The Change That Systems Change Needs

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Lior Ipp If you’ve been working in philanthropy for longer than a week, you’ve probably come across a report, analysis, or opinion piece about systems change. The most pernicious one is the narrative regarding small, locally led organizations and our low expectations of them (which is not exclusive to the social change space).