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The 10 Most Popular SSIR Articles of 2023

Stanford Social Innovation

How to Tell Real Stories About Impact by Annie Neimand “Storytelling is the most powerful tool we have for helping people understand the work we do, particularly from people who are closest to injustice and inequality.” Transforming Local Communities Through Artistic Leadership by Stephan Manning & Yeşim Uygur 19. Subscribe here.)

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Fighting deforestation should be a top priority for 2021, and here’s how it can be

GreenBiz

Now, NGOs and investors are urging consumer goods and food companies and financial institutions to devote more resources to addressing the root cause of shrinking forests, deforestation. . Progress takes root. There is definitely increasing urgency around this issue," Waxman says. Palm oil plantation at the edge of a rainforest.

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Systems Change: Making the Aspirational Actionable

Stanford Social Innovation

In recent years, social justice leaders have consistently called for a systems change approach to redressing the root causes of social problems, rather than only mitigating their symptoms. To understand what systems change is and how to pursue it, we need to connect core strategies back to the root causes they address.

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Housing and Health: Creating Solutions With Communities

Stanford Social Innovation

In vibrant and thriving communities, people have the power and resources to realize their vision of health and well-being. There are inequities in housing quality, stability, and access; and imbalances of power that favor markets, developers, and landlords. By Stacey Barbas , Kate McLaughlin , Jessica Mulcahy & Vedette R.

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Some Things Have to Die for Others to Live: Why Scaling Down is Just as Important as Scaling Up in the Transformation of Global Food Systems

James Militzer

But though calls for the transformation of food systems abound , there is no quick fix. In our previous NextBillion article , we used a systems thinking tool called the iceberg model to show that sustained, large-scale change only happens if the entrenched patterns that drive a system are changed. We’ve experienced mixed success.

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The Social Impact Investment Mirage

Stanford Social Innovation

This article will explore our often disheartening journey to raise investment through impact investors, corporate partnerships, grants, and contests. But as Kahi relates, investment has been elusive. The Investment Mirage. In 2020, only 2 percent of all investable assets went to impact companies.

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How Funders of Collective Impact Initiatives Can Build Trust

Stanford Social Innovation

Many funders are engaging in co-creative, collaborative approaches to strategy and implementation, including collective impact , to leverage different forms of power and create real, sustainable community transformation. External Actions for Building Trust.