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SSIR Post: Swine Flu or Why Local Organizations Matter

Amy Sample Ward

In a recent Op-Ed piece in the New York Times , David Brooks compared the global response vs localized response to the outbreak. Brooks shows that if the world had a global approach to outbreaks like Swine Flu, then the decision-making and directive power would be in a really bumped up World Health Organization-like group.

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Philanthropy Delivers New Promise of Quality Education for All

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This topic was center-stage at this year’s Global Philanthropy Forum. Gallucci noted that there was one statistic that matters to him: “There are 39 million girls globally that should be in secondary education, and who are not.” It provides returns for decades. This is where philanthropy comes in.

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How Funders are Driving Systems Change in Response to the Climate Crisis

Saleforce Nonprofit

Funders are seeing this challenge and answering the call, using their influence to not just support the sector’s own path to net zero, but also increase the capacity of the sector to drive an equitable transition to net zero globally. Or mitigation? And how can we accurately measure the carbon reduction that results from these projects?”.

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Announcing the Third Impact Lab on Climate Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

This lab will bring together leaders from across the nonprofit, government, and for-profit sectors to lend their expertise to ideate and co-design technology solutions to advance progress on this issue. Jennifer Anderson. Executive Director, Trellis for Tomorrow. Executive Fellow for Climate Action, FUSE.

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Tips for Communicating COVID-19 Precautions to Your Event Attendees

AccelEvents

Needless to say, event planning and attracting an audience during a global coronavirus outbreak is difficult! Expected locale precautions (i.e., Inform event attendees on required COVID-19 test. . Some events have required participants to get a COVID-19 test a few days prior to arriving at the event. .

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Majora Carter’s Eco-Entrepreneurship

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SB] 2 offers programs in technology, engineering, design and entrepreneurship to local youth, and supports local, early-stage companies. [SB] One such idea I brought up is reshoring—that is, bringing well-paid factory jobs back home from overseas, and particularly to the South Bronx as a hub of local sourcing and production.

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Why Using Technology to Accelerate Climate Action is More Essential Than Ever

Saleforce Nonprofit

Ecopreneurs, or startups focused on solving climate challenges, are launching innovative ideas to protect the planet and drive climate impact locally and at scale. At Salesforce, we favor nature-based solutions because they’ve been tried and tested over billions of years of evolution, and that’s hard to beat with technology.

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