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Need a Lift? 13 Stories That Inspired Us in 2024

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SSIR is a nonprofit media organization that is entirely funded from subscriptions, events, webinars, and donations. Closing the Racial Diversity Gap in Medicine by Allison Torres Burtka* A growing body of research shows a positive correlation between the racial diversity of doctors and health outcomes for underserved communities.

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Can Nonprofits Escape Corporate Capture?

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit:Rayson Tan on Unsplash Below is a transcript, edited for length and clarity, of “Escaping Corporate Capture: Nonprofit Survival in a For-Profit World,” hosted by Opus 40 in Saugerties, NY, on July 26, 2024. Moderating the conversation are Caroline Crumpacker of Ultra Advising and Steve Dubb of Nonprofit Quarterly.

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Taking Steps Toward Disability Inclusion in China

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The UN Disability and Development Report 2018 reveals that individuals with disabilities face fundamental challenges in nearly all aspects of life, including employment, health care, and education. Entrepreneurship and self-employment are also emerging as promising avenues for individuals with disabilities.

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What’s in a Name? The Ethics of Building Naming Gifts

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Today, nonprofit fundraising and especially large capital campaigns emphasize naming opportunities to attract seven-, eight-, and nine-figure donations from high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs). In response, I returned to school to study fundraising and nonprofit sector leadership and their relationship to normative ethics.

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Innovating to Address the Systemic Drivers of Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Unfortunately, there are not many health clinics nearby where Elisa can get easy access to primary care with her Medicaid insurance. Over the last year, she had to visit the emergency room at the local hospital three times when she and members of her family developed severe respiratory symptoms. Elisa isn’t alone.

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Smart Reform: Reducing Government Waste By Strengthening The Nonprofit Sector

Bloomerang

At Idaho Partners for Good , we believe the key is to invest in solutions that empower diverse nonprofits, leverage community strengths, and promote long-term sustainability ensuring that fiscal responsibility and social good go hand in hand. Let’s start by acknowledging government waste, which President Trump vowed to reduce.

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CDFIs Transform Rural Economies. We Just Need to Get Them There.

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The labor-intensive, extractive industries paradigm that has long powered rural economies—think agriculture, manufacturing, mining, timber—has fundamentally changed due to automation and globalization , and the search for new rural development models is coalescing around a new vision.