Candid

JUNE 23, 2022

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. COVID-19 placed unparalleled pressure on the country’s health systems, economy, and the well-being of Brazilians.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 13, 2020

We wanted to make it clear to our followers the connection between our work and how that helps prevent the spread of disease and impacts the health of families around the world. Video collaboration with Sony artists Marc Scibilia and voice over by Water.org co-founder Matt Damon.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

By Stephen Jackson From supporting a local museum to responding to climate change to aiding people in the midst of a health crisis, nonprofit staff turn time and attention to a variety of issues, working on them in creative and hyperlocal ways. Fact-checking is not enough.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 15, 2024

Three goals that stand out with especially strong potential to be transformed by AI are SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-Being), SDG 4 (Quality Education), and SDG 13 (Climate Action). As such, this series focuses on how AI-powered nonprofits are transforming the climate, health care, and education sectors.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Were in a period of polycrisis, yet the business world, government, and civil society persist in their siloed approaches to solving it. We need these folks as champions and collaborators. At a time when government funds are decreasing, collaborating to better coordinate and leverage these funding flows is even more essential.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 17, 2022

To achieve this, more businesses need to join with the government and civil society to actively confront inequality, poverty, and climate change together. Besides perpetual food insecurity, many are unable to access or cover basic health services, housing, transportation, water and sanitation, or education.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Once the cooperative was set up with support from civil society 10 years ago, the collective progress has become visceral. Women are seeing an increase in income and are able to send their children to school, access health care, acquire more land, and diversify their earnings through other small businesses.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

That’s because each network member can tackle a piece of the puzzle, while maintaining relationships that allow coordination, collaboration, and troubleshooting. INETTT members have built strong, collaborative relationships through topic-based working groups, site visits, and in-person retreats.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 17, 2024

It’s time to work shoulder-to-shoulder with civil society and government to do the big, urgent work that no sector can accomplish alone, to adopt entirely new systems of operating that enable all people to thrive and reach their full potential and protect our natural environment.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 12, 2023

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.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 13, 2023

It can mean supporting networking and collaboration across local entities rather than competitive funding mechanisms. Moreover, by replacing an application-based process with a nominations process, and by funding a cohort of recipients, they are able to replace a competitive experience with a collaborative one.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

In fact, they point toward potential solutions that encourage collaboration. The social sector must work together to build the data infrastructure across institutions and members of the public, as well as collaborate with the IRS to reduce barriers and create a public system that bolsters data infrastructure. Suggestions for Action.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 19, 2025

Through Elandrias work at Highlander, we did a lot of collaboration with many folks on the education team at Highlander in particular. SD: Any of the 11 topics you coverfood justice, health, and so oncould have been a book on their own. They took it to the Highlander team and really built the will inside of that organization.

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Nonprofit Fixer

APRIL 22, 2024

The nonprofit sector should get way more credit for being a bedrock of our society — for being the compass leading us all in the direction of a truly civil society. It deserves that.” - Joan Garry ( source ) “Nonprofits attract the best in society because they see beyond the economic gain.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 26, 2023

Civil society and humanitarian organizations are attuned to the reality that these streams of people generate massive amounts of data that can, for instance, help channel aid to the neediest, predict disease outbreaks, and much more. data linkage in health research) and areas in which the public was concerned (i.e.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 15, 2023

Governments representing deeply indebted nations are often unable to invest in health care, education, and other services, which, in turn, threatens their very political survival. To accomplish this, the IMF and World Bank can coordinate and collaborate with other creditors to align their policies and practices on debt swaps.

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Public and Social Policy Environmental Governance Civil Society 98

The NonProfit Times

AUGUST 22, 2024

By Stephen Jackson From supporting a local museum to responding to climate change to aiding people in the midst of a health crisis, nonprofit staff turn time and attention to a variety of issues, working on them in creative and hyperlocal ways. Fact-checking is not enough.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 9, 2024

The Protocol in Action Grupo Fleury, a health care company specializing in medical diagnostics , illustrates how a signatory with diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies already in place can direct them more effectively toward racial equity. However, no tool, present or future, will thrive without tandem will and effort.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 13, 2024

The artist developed the work to address the immigration crisis and collaborated with 21 community members. As American political philosopher Michael Sandel laments , “Do we want a society where everything is up for sale? Or are there certain moral and civic goods that markets do not honor and money cannot buy?”

Ethics 122

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 28, 2023

Trends across multiple indicators linked to SDG targets, such as maternal mortality, overdose and suicide rates, and proficiency in reading and math, suggest that the future health and well-being of American youth, women, and minority racial and ethnic groups are particularly at risk.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 1, 2024

This may seem like an overly hopeful, impossible task, but not too long ago, humanity successfully accomplished such collaboration and advanced the benefits of another controversial technology: genetic sequencing. I believe we can achieve such cooperation again to ensure AI advancements help humanity thrive.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

That requires addressing high levels of corruption, a lack of rule of law, weak civil service capacity, poor public service delivery, and a lack of both transparency and accountability. The population-scale solution is not to fund NGO-run health, education, and justice systems. But the price of corruption is not evenly distributed.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

As the Nicaraguan government tightened its grip on authoritarian rule, it was threatened by civil society organizations who possess the power to hold them accountable, receiving funds they do not control and investing those funds in services that preserve human rights, protect democracy, and empower individuals.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 24, 2024

A market innovation like creating a sustainable seafood market is unlikely to create enduring systems change without building strong relationships with civil society. Embedding change into a system means philanthropic staff, trustees, organizational divisions, and funder collaborative members must buy into the process.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Stanford Social Innovation Review ’s 2022 Nonprofit Management Institute (NMI) will focus on opportunities to bridge the divides that exist in society. How do we encourage greater cooperation and collaboration in what can feel like an increasingly divisive world? How to Have Better Political Conversations. September 14 at 10 a.m.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

At this uncertain time, as the potential use-cases of generative AI begin to become apparent, there are at least 10 things that funders can do to help the existing field of tech-related nonprofits—and society at large—better prepare. Building government (and civil society) capacity to use AI. Transparency and data access.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 25, 2023

By Trevor Zimmer In May, the COVID-19 national public health emergency officially ended. But the COVID-19 pandemic will not be the last novel infectious disease in our lifetimes, and climate change will be a threat to human and planetary health without equal.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

It’s in handheld scanners used by everyone from warehouse workers to retail clerks to hospital nurses checking into a patient’s room as well as the phone-based apps home health aides must log into and out of with every client they visit. Cross-sector harms open the door to cross-sector collaboration.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 17, 2022

According to the 2022 United Nations climate change report, 40 percent of the world’s population is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, meaning their physical and mental health is already affected by climate-related diseases and extreme natural events. Why Climate Justice Matters to Business.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 11, 2024

It erodes a high-functioning pluralistic democracy , compromises public health, and makes it impossible to solve collective problems like climate change. It is earned person by person, moving through large segments of society. American civil society institutions have an important role to play. Trust doesn’t just happen.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

By Sheringham Odhiambo , Madeleine Ballard , Ben Pyne & Kathryn Harrison Ten years ago, I (Sheringham) was going door-to-door, providing routine health checks, administering vaccinations, and managing cases of HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, and other debilitating diseases for residents of Mathare slum in Nairobi, Kenya.

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Health Public and Social Policy Civil Society Finance 132

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NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Thanks to a small group of critical collaborators, there will be a Blueprint dropping in December. I'll work the health part out for myself (with lots of community and professional support). I'm pleased to say I'm working on the Blueprint 2023. This will be the 14th annual edition. As always you can find past versions here and here.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 11, 2024

Voter education and mobilization are important to the health of our democracy and are often effective ways to increase voter turnout. Many elected officials, nonprofit organizations, researchers, and foundations are collaborating to reform this underlying incentive system in both blue and red states across the country.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

This funder invests in and strengthens the capacity of women-led movements to advance meaningful social, cultural, and economic change in women’s lives, specifically across three areas: Economic Justice, Safety, and Women’s Health. They fund nonprofit organizations that support Education, Family, and Health & Wellness.

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 16, 2024

As the world trends on the edge of a healthcare revolution, we now confront a critical issue: the inadvertent widening of health inequities by these very innovations. Evolving health technology has brought remarkable benefits. Health technology today relies heavily on data, yet inequities abound. 37 percent.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 20, 2025

Gender-affirming care is mental health care. The Rise of Anti-LGBTQ+ Legislation In 2024 alone, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) tracked 533 anti-LGBTQ+ bills targeting issues like gender-affirming care and the use of preferred names and pronouns in schools. You know, community-wise, mental-health-wise.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 13, 2025

If a senior mentioned a health concern or an issue at home, volunteers would escalate it to city officials. By leveraging existing strengths, embracing collaboration, and balancing short-term relief and long-term sustainability, organizations can successfully navigate crises and find new ways to serve, engage, and advocate.

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