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Innovating to Address the Systemic Drivers of Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Her lack of access to healthy food, along with the stress associated with getting food and making ends meet, exacerbates her risk. Governments and their policies in far off places can affect food supply or the spread of disease at home and can go further to impact elections, social policy, and even violent conflicts with loss of life.

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Funding Faith: Raising Money For Religion-Based Organizations

Bloomerang

As noted in β€œ American Muslim Philanthropy: A Data-Driven Comparative Profile ,” a report authored by Faiqa Mahmood in 2019 via The Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, β€œThe strongest motivations for American Muslims are a feeling that those with more should give to those with less and a sense of religious duty or obligation.” .

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Leading Together for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

If, instead, we see leadership as a matter of finding and following new paths in collaboration with others, then it is more about understanding interactions among people and their environments and navigating a variety of unpredictable situations along the way. These intrapreneurs are creative and self-motivated.

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Shifting the Harmful Narratives and Practices of Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

But where did they come from, and why are they still a central part of economic policy today? This seriesβ€” Ending Work Requirements β€” based on a report by the Maven Collaborative, the Center for Social Policy, and Ife Finch Floyd, will explore the truth behind work requirements.

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Why the Social Sector Needs an Impact Registry

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It also helps research centers collaborate and share data as they become available, thus making it easier for research to address specific unanswered questions about MS. These biomarkers make it easier to diagnose, develop a prognosis, and respond to the progression by modifying therapies and managing side effects.

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Designing for Better Mental Health Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Policy bodies like the National Governor’s Association are calling for more tailored mental health planning. However, in social policy, academics and policy makers can use the rhetoric of evidence-based policy in policy deliberations to dismiss rather than resolve the complex ways that community values and research evidence interact.

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