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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.

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

India’s fragrant spices, cornucopia of foods, and breathtaking biodiversity compelled despots and discoverers alike to traverse its mystical landscapes, from the mighty Himalayas to the valiant Deccan. And in doing so, they have relentlessly decolonized what land and food have meant for my people.

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How Global Talent Enriches a Global Health Organization

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Yet to address these problems, we need to zoom in, convening experts, civil society and affected communities to explore sustainable solutions that work in the local context. These are the pillars on which we build our organizational culture: Inclusive collaboration, respect, commitment to learning and adaptability.

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Philanthropy during COVID-19 in Brazil 

Candid

To understand how the pandemic impacted the philanthropic sector and civil society organizations around the world, we reached out to local experts who shared their observations and experiences over the past two years. Brazil’s culture of giving and philanthropy has been growing since the 1980s. billion by the summer of 2020. .

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Building Supply Chains Where Smallholder Farmers Thrive

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Smallholder farmers produce at least a third of the global food supply. To achieve this, more businesses need to join with the government and civil society to actively confront inequality, poverty, and climate change together. Though these farms are small, typically under two hectares, their cumulative impact is large.

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Better Climate Funding Means Centering Local and Indigenous Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For example, another recent study on African conservation funding practices finds that 92 percent of African civil society organizations struggle to access sufficient core funding, 71 percent of them identified short-term project structures as a key barrier, and 52 percent find existing proposal and reporting requirements to be a barrier.

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Small Organizations: The Change That Systems Change Needs

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The organizations are improving water and sanitation access, education quality, food security, and health equity, and a large majority take systems change approaches to their work. As a collaborative effort with multiple funding partners , we have regular conversations with foundations from across the globe.