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Innovating to Address the Systemic Drivers of Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Life expectancy can differ up to 30 years in the US between different zip codes in the same state, indicating the significance of socioeconomic, environmental, and social factors in driving health outcomes. There are communities like hers all over America. We call these factors the Systemic Drivers of Health. Image by the authors.

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Putting Health at the Center of Climate Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Companies can also create goals for their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategies that both improve the well-being of suppliers in the near term and lay a foundation for them to minimize their environmental footprints in the future. Companies can also look beyond their own walls for innovative ideas.

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Can Nonprofits Escape Corporate Capture?

NonProfit Quarterly

At the same time, within this austerity framework, nonprofits increasingly fill holes in sectors ranging from education to healthcare to journalism to social services that we depend on the most and that have been receiving less and less government support. There’s also the kind of “emotional labor” involved in courting individual donors.

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Impact Without Imposition: What Role for Northern Academics in the Global South?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Georg von Richthofen & Ali Aslan Gümüsay This year, our institute published several studies as part of the research project Sustainability, Entrepreneurship, and Global Digital Transformation (SET) based on activities in seven countries in the Global South. In Benin, for example, we focused on sustainable entrepreneurship.

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The Five Nonprofit Conferences You Don’t Want to Miss in 2016

NonProfit Hub

Social media. Social media strategies. Corporate culture. Social Good Tech Week. Social Good Tech Week ’s official date is yet to be determined, but it will be held in the spring of next year in San Francisco. Follow Social Good Tech Week on Twitter. Like Social Good Tech Week on Facebook. Innovation.

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How transactional donor relationships kill generosity

iMarketSmart

Transactional behavior in anthropology Across human cultures, whenever a relationship becomes transactional – or “strictly contingent” – giving stops. Journal of Nonprofit & Public Sector Marketing, 28 (2), 164-184; Küchler, L., Asia Pacific Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Policy Press. 2020, September).