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Stanford Social Innovation
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
It demonstrated that when innovative leaders empower proximate communities, orchestrate strategic collaboration across sectors and geographies, and unlock creative capital, they dont just challenge the status quothey leap past it, catapulting systemic change forward. Their effort was not an outlier.
James Militzer
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
The field of philanthropy has grown in dynamism and innovation in recent years. To better tackle these systemic challenges, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA) launched the Shifting Systems Initiative in 2016. It has also catalyzed a more international outlook, since such problems and solutions do not respect national boundaries.
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Stanford Social Innovation
JULY 1, 2024
Check out these recently excerpted books in SSIR for everything from practical insights on the social sector to the deep questions about the big picture that get to why we do what we do. Belonging without Othering by john a. powell & Stephen Menendian What does it mean to belong?
James Militzer
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Transformative technologies may start by making us more efficient, but it’s when they are embedded in new business models that they fundamentally change the way that we live and work. For instance, trains began as “faster horses” aiming to displace wagons, and ended up enabling modern industry.
Stanford Social Innovation
JANUARY 27, 2025
As advisors to donors and nonprofits, we know firsthand the impact this wealth can have, and were optimistic that much of it will be deployed through philanthropy or values-aligned investing to address our worlds most pressing problems. Our conclusion? Can Women Get Philanthropy Unstuck?
Sustainable Round Table
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
As we confront the triple, mutually reinforcing challenges of an ongoing pandemic , wrenching social inequity, and the mounting threat of irreversible environmental breakdown, we must acknowledge that these issues are driven by human beings and are, therefore, “a human problem.”1 Doug McMillon is right.
Stanford Social Innovation
APRIL 18, 2022
Policy is only effective if its intended outcome actually reaches the people it’s meant to serve, and thus far, our ability to deliver hasn’t always met our ambition. We must act now to invest in a talent pipeline of technology experts in the public sector. By Jennifer Anastasoff.
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