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Can Cities Be the Source of Scalable Innovations?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

And the US Green Building Council (USGBC), an intermediary promoting energy-efficient construction, developed guidelines and rating systems for sustainable cities and neighborhoods. In fact, city leaders often follow the pioneering innovations of civil society organizations. Some small wins even turn into legislation.

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Healing Society through the Archaeology of Self™: A Racial Literacy Development Approach

NonProfit Quarterly

Imagine a civil society in which communities, individuals, and leaders (nonprofit, social movement, philanthropy, business, education, and more) regularly engage in the process of self-examination for the sake of improving our world.

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This is instead an exercise in liberating the constructs of creativity from being the prerogative of the Western, masculine, or the allegedly educated, while reclaiming what rural women of India have championed for thousands of years. .” And lest we forget, hunger knows no borders, and nor do rights, or the lack thereof.

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Betting on Migration for Impact

Stanford Social Innovation Review

While immigration policies have prioritized high levels of education or family ties—and the political conversation tends to presume a basic scarcity of jobs—critical jobs in construction, agriculture, hospitality, and the care economy, including elderly care, cannot be automated.

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How Investors Can Shape AI for the Benefit of Workers

Stanford Social Innovation Review

And while we’ve seen abundant investment in tools designed to assist software developers and free up time for them to focus on the more challenging parts of their jobs, there has been far less investment in technology that could assist construction workers, the service sector, teachers, nurses, or other care workers.

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Starting With the State

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Another example of building civil service capabilities is Apolitical, a certified B corporation backed by impact investors, which aims to build the capabilities for civil servants across the globe through online courses, events, and knowledge products, and has reached over 200,000 civil servants in 160 countries.

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What’s in a Name? The Ethics of Building Naming Gifts

Stanford Social Innovation Review

My research finds otherwise and implicates current legal constructs and fundraising practices that continue to privilege the self-interests of donors over beneficiaries and society. As American political philosopher Michael Sandel laments , “Do we want a society where everything is up for sale?

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