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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. Most importantly, without farmers producing reliable, high-quality agricultural products, businesses across the apparel, food, and other industrial sectors will quite simply fail.

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Empowering Changemakers: A Framework For Public Good Tech

The NonProfit Times

But research ([link] tells us the training, configuration, and resources necessary to ensure products can be used in a nonprofit environment also serve as persistent hurdles in this arena. Design : Civil society does not often have a chance to make their needs explicit as tools are being developed. Cost is a big one.

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The fervor of the British Raj, and now of transnational corporations and local elites, to shift lands from community ownership to private control of a few (usually) affluent men continues to denigrate women’s status from being equal and prolific members of an agrarian society to dependent wives with limited access to productive resources.

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Mapping the Landscape of AI-Powered Nonprofits

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Collaborative Google.org research found a 300 percent increase in the application of AI to address the SDGs since 2018. To make sense of it all, Fast Forward analyzed nearly 100 use cases, collaborated with leaders in the tech-for-good ecosystem, and interviewed dozens of builders. New solutions are coming online every week.

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Why Organizers Need Mobilizers and Mobilizers Need Organizers

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The implication is that we need to approach social change not like we are seeking a silver bullet, but rather in search of collaborative principles that allow different people power strategies to coexist and stimulate productive change together. Central Coordination In 2015 and 2016, GetUp! Rather than acting alone, GetUp!

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Small Organizations: The Change That Systems Change Needs

Stanford Social Innovation Review

As a collaborative effort with multiple funding partners , we have regular conversations with foundations from across the globe. Together, they address barriers to safe and healthy diets through capacity building, strategic collaborations, and advocacy for increased resources, improved policies, and better government accountability.

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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.