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Building Supply Chains Where Smallholder Farmers Thrive

Stanford Social Innovation Review

On the market side, many companies have come to understand the existential threat that climate change represents. As the United Nations highlights, eradicating poverty is the greatest global challenge and an absolute requirement for sustainable development. A Tyranny of Tradeoffs. What Doesn’t Work—and What Does.

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Democracy in Peril: In South Africa, Will Philanthropy Back Economic Justice?

NonProfit Quarterly

These laws, purportedly designed as a check on foreign interference, limit civil society organizations and restrict democratic practice by cutting off funding from foundations to movement organizations. percent of the country’s 63 million people living in poverty, gross domestic product growth that slowed to 0.6

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How Water.org Adapted Their Social Media Content Strategy in Response to COVID-19

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The current social media environment has caused non-profit marketers to re-evaluate their content aware of the acute conversations being had on every channel, at a global level. Posting without a mindfulness of the trending topics and conversations can cause organizations to appear insensitive and tone-deaf.

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What the Lost Children Knew: A Story from Colombia’s Amazon Rainforest

NonProfit Quarterly

Suboptimal” early childhood development is seen as contributing to poverty in communities. Facts and Factors estimate that the global early childhood education market was worth $247 billion in 2021; it projects spending to climb to $487 billion by 2030. 2017 , 77).

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

” Before the cooperative, women were selling pineapples at a much lower price and were stuck in a cycle of poverty. Once the cooperative was set up with support from civil society 10 years ago, the collective progress has become visceral. The name literally translates to “lift one another up.”

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Gates, Ford, Open Society announce commitments for gender equality

Candid

billion to expand its work to increase options for and access to contraceptives in partnership with UNFPA Supplies Partnership , Family Planning 2030 , the Global Financing Facility , and the Shaping Equitable Market Access for Reproductive Health initiative.

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How Can We Make Employee Ownership the Norm Rather Than the Exception?

NonProfit Quarterly

He launched the Grameen Bank , and a generation later microfinance—a system of providing small loans to people who otherwise do not have access to conventional banking—has reached every corner of the world, lifting millions out of poverty. People joined from more than 15 countries, representing business, government, and civil society.