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Building Power for Healthy Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Tia Martinez In seeking to improve the health outcomes of people in underserved communities, philanthropy’s results have, in general, been disappointing: Socioeconomic and racial injustices run so deep in these communities that strong barriers to change extend well beyond the health care system. Community grantees knew better.

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Better Climate Funding Means Centering Local and Indigenous Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Public funding agencies, such as the Global Environment Facility and USAID, are also expressing their own intentions to get more climate and biodiversity funding to local, community-level, and Indigenous organizations. These changes are possible for both public and private funders.

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Building Infrastructure to Support Equity: A Conversation with Dr. Akilah Watkins

NonProfit Quarterly

The nonprofit sector is hugely important both economically and socially to this country. SD: How do you and Independent Sector relate to CEO Circle—and since the charge of Independent Sector is broader than community development, how do you see your connection to CEO Circle from your new post? We are really excited about this.