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Need a Lift? 13 Stories That Inspired Us in 2024

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Helping Young People Cope With Eco-Anxiety by Zoey England A warming world is causing adverse psychological and emotional impacts for many young people. Universities may be able to help by building opportunities for students to take relevant action beyond the classroom.

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The Promise and the Power of Social Cooperatives

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Getty Images on iStock The democratization of social care realigns the roles of state and civil society within a larger framework of social and political transformation. Moreover, SABSA is now partnered with Quebec City’s local health systems.

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What Will It Take to Reimagine Security?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The Systemic Climate Action Collaborative is bringing civil society, philanthropy, and public and private institutions to align climate ambitions, pool resources, and share knowledge. For example, the Tata Trusts in India integrate water security, agricultural resilience, and gender equality in their rural development programs.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Yet, a recent literature survey by Mezzenzana and four other colleagues notes how the Nurturing Care Framework largely excludes insights and evidence from anthropology, cultural psychology, and ethnography. Nor does it incorporate context-sensitive research from the target communities.

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Why Reparations Can Counter the Legacy of a 50-Year “War on Drugs”

NonProfit Quarterly

This record acts as a form of permanent punishment, limiting our ability to participate in civil society through a complex web of laws in Illinois that punish people with criminal records, often indefinitely. Rehabilitation includes medical and psychological care, as well as legal and social services.

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In Search of Inclusive Social Entrepreneurship

Stanford Social Innovation Review

We found that in Brazil, social entrepreneurs from poor communities differ significantly from those from higher social classes, especially in terms of their access to financial, human, psychological, and social capital. Let us look at these types of capital one by one.

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Using Social Science to Strengthen Your Fundraising

NonProfit Hub

In recent years, a growing amount of research in behavioral science and social psychology has made it possible to understand many of these techniques on a deeper level. These are prime examples of a psychological phenomenon known as the Zeigarnik effect , named after Lithuanian psychologist Bluma Zeigarnik.