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From Unpaid to Unstoppable: The Rise of the Professional Community Health Worker Movement

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Together, were offering this case study to shed light on how innovative leaders are collaboratively building resilient health systems that can respond to future challengesfrom pandemics to climate-related disasterswhile expanding primary care access for all. In other words: collective action. But theres more to do.

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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. Develop new financing streams to directly support Indigenous communities.

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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. The collaborative also partnered with Fanamby, a Madagascan NGO, to effectively coordinate producers. A Tyranny of Tradeoffs. Dialing In on Procurement.

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How Water.org Adapted Their Social Media Content Strategy in Response to COVID-19

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Video collaboration with Sony artists Marc Scibilia and voice over by Water.org co-founder Matt Damon. Water.org helps people get access to safe water and sanitation through affordable financing, such as small loans. Their social media content highlighted Water.org’s participation in the World Leaders Call-to-Action on COVID-19.

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Better Climate Funding Means Centering Local and Indigenous Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Yet, despite this consensus, the Rainforest Foundation Norway showed, in 2021 , that efforts to recognize Indigenous land rights and support their forest conservation were getting less than 1 percent of all climate financing, with the vast majority of funding going to international organizations or development contractors.

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Lessons From the Failures of Covax

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Without an equally unprecedented level of coordination and collaboration—requiring rigorously examining the lessons of the pandemic response—all of us will be impacted by these future challenges, particularly people living in global majority (or lower- and middle-income) countries.

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Unlocking the Potential of Open 990 Data

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In hopes of maximizing contributions to Ukrainian relief efforts, a record number of donors are turning to resources like Charity Navigator, which can now use open Form 990 data to evaluate and rate a large number of charities based on finances, governance, and other factors. These challenges are not insurmountable. Suggestions for Action.