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From Unpaid to Unstoppable: The Rise of the Professional Community Health Worker Movement

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Pioneering civil society organizations and social entrepreneurs (such as Skoll Foundation partners Muso and Living Goods, among others) have proved CHWs efficacy, particularly in reducing maternal and child mortality and responding to disease outbreaks. In other words: collective action. But theres more to do.

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From Uprooted to Uplifted: The Movement to Restore Indigenous Land Rights

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Though these violations continue, over the last 10 to 15 years, we have increasingly seen momentum among rightsholders, their allies, and civil society in advocating for rights-based and community-led conservation. Develop new financing streams to directly support Indigenous communities. This short film by If Not Us Then Who?

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The Next 4 Years: Tapping Into Nonprofit Expertise

The NonProfit Times

Rutzen has worked on the legal framework for civil society, digital rights, and public participation in 100 countries. He previously served on the advisory board of the United Nations Democracy Fund and co-chaired the civil society pillar of the Community of Democracies.

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Strengthening communities by supporting the nonprofit workforce 

Candid

Nonprofits working in the areas of health care as well as finance and insurance (e.g., Nonprofit workers are at the heart of civil society, and the same compassion and care we bring to our mission must extend to our people. What has to change to allow more women access to executive-level positions, at equal rates of pay?

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Digital civil society rises amid commercial turmoil

Philanthropy 2173

The following post is about the chaos that is now Twitter, the growth in the #fediverse, the damage being done in real time to disbursed communities of people and activists, the possibilities of digital civil society coming through to shine, and the need to think carefully and collectively.

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The impact of COVID-19 on civil society, part two

Candid

Nonprofits surveyed by the Toronto Foundation widely believe (65 percent) that the pandemic will significantly threaten their finances for the next five years. Almost three-quarters (73 percent) fear society will be more unequal a decade from now because of the pandemic’s social and financial impacts.

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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. Women in agricultural communities around the world continue to face structural barriers to accessing education, land, finance, seedlings, fertilizer, and pesticides.