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Betting on Migration for Impact

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Labor Mobility Partnerships (LaMP) is an example of a systems designer that helps coordinate across employers, aspiring workers, recruiters, government agencies, and trainers to prioritize and direct the investments needed to establish “good labor mobility” in key corridors around the world. Build the responsible recruitment industry.

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Leading Together for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Sida Ly-Xiong After completing a leadership fellowship program for women of color, a program participant accepted a position as director of citizen engagement and education at a state public health agency in the United States. They drive change through networks and relationships, and use the power and influence that emerges.

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A Primer for Incubating Child Care Businesses

NonProfit Quarterly

Without access to quality childcare, many parents cannot work full time and become trapped in a cycle of poverty. Recruiting a cohort is tricky. Our initial focus was on counties with poverty and unemployment rates that exceeded statewide averages. Image Credit: Ketut Subiyanto on pixels.com The need for childcare is well known.

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Organizing a Community Around Food Sovereignty

NonProfit Quarterly

Meanwhile, the answer to our own vigorous recruitment efforts is too often no. Seeking to address the root causes of food insecurity in its own backyard, the Anthem Foundation (a philanthropic arm of the major Indianapolis-based health insurance company, Anthem, Inc. ), funded the initiative with a $2.45 Black excellence abounds here.

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What Is Volunteerism? A Guide to the History & Benefits

Bloomerang

These issues include climate-related disasters, diseases, poverty, and other problems that present major roadblocks to peace and prosperity. For instance, if you help recruit volunteers for a school, you must understand what type of volunteers you need and how to connect with them. It also benefits volunteers themselves.

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How to Start a Nonprofit: 12 Essential Steps for Success

Bloomerang

Recruit potential members Look for people who are passionate about the cause, have experience relevant to the mission, and have served in a fundraising or volunteer role at a nonprofit in the past. Examples CARE Mission statement: CARE works around the globe to save lives, defeat poverty, and achieve social justice. Hold interviews.

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5 takeaways on why gender equity matters across issue areas 

Candid

Women are disproportionately affected in areas including health care, sustainable agriculture, forced displacement, economic development, literacy, democracy, and mass incarceration While efforts that ignore gender will be limited in effectiveness, those that address gender likely will have ripple effects into other areas. health care system.