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Innovating to Address the Systemic Drivers of Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Historically, the Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) has been used as a term to capture these important upstream, non-medical drivers of health. Traditional medical innovators are typically focused on the surface-level challenges related to health care delivery.

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Putting Health at the Center of Climate Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Meanwhile, Better Life Farming , a program developed by life sciences company, Bayer, supports smallholder farmers in low-and-middle-income countries by providing high-quality agricultural products like seeds and crop protection; educational training in farm management, market access, and entrepreneurship; and environmental consulting.

Health 122
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Ending Persistent Poverty in Rural America: The Role of CDFIs

NonProfit Quarterly

Here are a few vignettes of how this works: Supporting Entrepreneurship : Back in 2018, a nurse practitioner with over a decade’s experience opened an urgent care facility in her hometown of Clarksdale, MS. We must enact sound, infrastructurally rebellious, and enduring solutions to improve the welfare of the communities our members serve.

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Making The Best of It All: Founder, CEO, Entrepreneur On Leading With Energy, Intention

Fundraising Leadership

It can also give you the energy you need to find and fulfill your entrepreneurship goals and “do it without being exhausted,” says Amy Leigh Looper, founder and CEO of Leading Motherhood. “ Overcoming mine meant medical leave and ultimately changing careers and institutions. Amy Leigh Looper, CEO/Founder, Leading Motherhood.

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National Gathering Looks to Address Root Causes of Inequality

NonProfit Quarterly

Institutional racism means that many institutions were implicated in the creation of the system that we have today—governmental, academic, corporate, and medical institutions alike.” Van Tol made these remarks at a keynote address to 1,200 attendees at this spring’s NCRC annual conference in Washington, DC.

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A Primer for Incubating Child Care Businesses

NonProfit Quarterly

We also deliberately sought out people outside the entrepreneurship ecosystem who had a desire to work with children. Everyone brings a policy to the class, such as child behavior guidance or administering medication. Our initial focus was on counties with poverty and unemployment rates that exceeded statewide averages.

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Billion Dollar CEO, Founder: Liz Elting on Dreaming, Mentoring, Giving and Winning

Fundraising Leadership

I am loving where I am now,” says Elting, who through her foundation in 2020 launched the Halo Fund, a comprehensive multimillion-dollar pandemic relief initiative aimed at direct support for medical needs, hunger relief, health equity, and on-the-ground efforts in underserved communities.