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Stanford Social Innovation Review
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
My peers and I in the CHIC networkalong with many other social innovators and supporters like the Skoll Foundationhave been driving toward systemic change on this issue, from different angles, for decades. Skoll has observed that successful social movements often share a special sauce that elevates their effectiveness: a system orchestrator.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
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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Candid
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
For many nonprofit workers—especially those who work in social assistance, the arts, or the religious sector—wages just can’t keep up with rising costs. In 2022, 48% owned their homes, only 4% had any investment income, 25% were covered by public health insurance, and 10% had no coverage at all.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
The social sector is using big data to enhance nonprofit transparency and knowledge more than ever before, and the opening of the Form 990 has made an essential contribution. Yet despite these breakthroughs, the social sector has only begun to scratch the surface of open 990 data’s capabilities.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
MAY 11, 2023
Yet, despite this consensus, the Rainforest Foundation Norway showed, in 2021 , that efforts to recognize Indigenous land rights and support their forest conservation were getting less than 1 percent of all climate financing, with the vast majority of funding going to international organizations or development contractors.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
MAY 25, 2023
By Trevor Zimmer In May, the COVID-19 national public health emergency officially ended. As the world emerges from this period of death, economic displacement, and social reordering, it will take years to fully understand how the pandemic impacted households, communities, and countries.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
AUGUST 15, 2023
With all this in mind, academics and policy makers have called for the international community to prioritize debt-for-climate swaps, an initiative through which a nation’s debt is forgiven in exchange for investment in climate change adaptation and mitigation, thereby addressing both crises at once.
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