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In Search of Inclusive Social Entrepreneurship

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DJ Bola could fully realize the potential of his venture and started to attend events and form connections within the social entrepreneurship ecosystem. Furthermore, our research revealed that the unequal structure of Brazilian society is reproduced in the field of social entrepreneurship through two mechanisms.

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Scaling Deep, Not Up: Lessons from Detroit

NonProfit Quarterly

Leaders in many places facing economic decline—be they post-industrial cities in the Rust Belt or depleted communities in former coal mining towns—are increasingly looking to entrepreneurship as a means of revitalization. Yet, these attempts have not significantly reverted economic decline.

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Being and Building Beloved Community: The Intersection of Culture and Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

The poverty rate is 52.4 In the 20th century, Atlanta emerged as a hub of Black entrepreneurship and education. Collaboration can create a broader movement that sees culture and community ownership as essential to economic restoration. But today,100 years later, the same neighborhood looks very different.

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Taking Steps Toward Disability Inclusion in China

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Disability, poverty, and discrimination are part of a cycle where each reinforces the others. In 2021, for example, the technology company Tencent, which supports nonprofits in various fields as part of its CSR practice, collaborated with D-Lab to recruit a small team of data annotators with physical disabilities.

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Building Power in Rural and Tribal Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Multiple generations of residents in Del Norte County have now suffered from widespread childhood obesity, low educational achievement, high teen drinking rates, poor health outcomes, and other social problems linked to high rates of trauma, unemployment, and poverty.

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The Future of Family Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In the early days of the pandemic, the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation , whose mission is to help people and places move out of poverty and achieve greater social and economic justice, recognized the devastation COVID-19 would bring to their grantee communities.

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Starting With the State

Stanford Social Innovation Review

All of this depresses economic activity and increases poverty. Borne overwhelmingly by the poorest and most vulnerable, it exacerbates their poverty and threatens their health. Where we have seen major, population-level, and systemic advances in social and economic well-being, governments have been the primary driving force.