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An Opportunity to Build, In the Crisis

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Yet as indispensable as providing more of philanthropy's core product will be, how that money is spent represents, perhaps, an even larger opportunity. They enable the scaled, collaborative action that is the sine qua non of any adequate response in this moment. They are a counterweight to organizational wasting.

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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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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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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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Education Transformation Against All Odds

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The students devised and implemented a plan to market and sell their honey production. nafda principals and teachers also used these forums to subtly promote the idea that schools play a role in shaping societies, not just preparing students for future jobs.

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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.