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Building Supply Chains Where Smallholder Farmers Thrive

Stanford Social Innovation Review

As the United Nations highlights, eradicating poverty is the greatest global challenge and an absolute requirement for sustainable development. To achieve this, more businesses need to join with the government and civil society to actively confront inequality, poverty, and climate change together. A Tyranny of Tradeoffs.

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One in Five Nonprofit Workers Can’t Afford Basic Expenses

NonProfit Quarterly

“We do think that anybody that dedicates their life in civil society should be able to take care of their monthly financial needs… Twenty-two percent of 13.9 What’s more, says Watkins, the findings suggest that the nonprofit sector is, in many cases, operating in contradiction to widely held values of labor justice and equity.

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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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Local Militias Step into Government Gaps

NonProfit Quarterly

In recent years, the group, labeled by the Southern Poverty Law Center as right-wing extremists , has been painting a different picture of itself—as a disaster relief organization. A Dangerous Rise Local militia groups have a broad range of beliefs and values. The militia has two operation camps, one of which is in Sasabe.

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In Search of Inclusive Social Entrepreneurship

Stanford Social Innovation Review

All over the world, we are seeing the proliferation of an ecosystem that comprises impact investors, accelerators, support organizations, and social entrepreneurs who are all driven by the possibility of generating shared value so that both companies and society win.

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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: A Conversation with Vincent Bevins

NonProfit Quarterly

From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world. I marched for a ceasefire last Saturday, and I would march again this Saturday.

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How to Build a Culture of Organizing: A Conversation with Marshall Ganz

NonProfit Quarterly

From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world. MG: There is an interdependence between our political structures and our civil society structures.

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