Wikimedia Foundation: Building Trust Through Community
Nov 21, 2024 · In 2020, people viewed COVID-related content on Wikipedia—the free, online encyclopedia—579 million times in more than 180 languages. In fact, medical content on the site received more pageviews than any other health information resource online that year.
The Vision of a Well-Being Economy - Stanford Social Innovation …
Dec 16, 2020 · To solve the social, economic, and environmental challenges we face today, we need to rethink the status quo. Governments and other institutions around the world need to embrace new ways of thinking and actively engage in widespread systems innovation to make real progress toward a healthier, more prosperous world.
Stanford Social Innovation Review: Informing and Inspiring …
sponsored “Our souls are crying out for something right now.” In a time of deep division, how can organizations reflect the vision and values of a true multiracial democracy and begin to bring people back together?
How Organizations Build Trust - Stanford Social Innovation Review
Jan 11, 2024 · With funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (the views in this article do not necessarily represent those of the foundation), a team of us at Spitfire Strategies took a close look at the social science research from the last 20 years about earning and rebuilding trust, interviewed and heard from more than 25 leaders on their trust-building work, and explored case studies to see trust ...
Community Engagement Matters (Now More Than Ever)
In October 2010, three men—Chris Christie, governor of New Jersey; Cory Booker, who was then mayor of Newark, N.J.; and Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook—appeared together on The Oprah Winfrey Show to announce an ambitious reform plan for Newark Public Schools. On the show, Zuckerberg pledged a $100 million matching grant to support the goal of making Newark a model for how to ...
What Is Community Anyway? - Stanford Social Innovation Review
May 12, 2015 · David M. Chavis, Ph.D. (@chavispower) is the Principal Associate and CEO of Community Science and is internationally recognized for his work in the implementation, support, and evaluation of community and systems change initiatives.The primary focus of his work has been the relationship between community development and the prevention of poverty, violence, substance abuse, and other social ...
How the Biggest US Nonprofits Are Funded - Stanford Social …
Jun 20, 2024 · Government: Of the organizations in our data set with a dominant funding category, government—federal, state, or local—is the dominant revenue category for 40 percent of them.Almost half of these organizations are in education or human services, representing a “natural match,” whereby governments contract with or provide grants to nonprofit agencies for services that government ...
Invading the Darkness of Child Sex Trafficking (SSIR)
For the past 20 years, Shared Hope International has been working to bring justice to vulnerable adults and children who have survived and overcome sex trafficking. Our small but powerful team of 18 staffers has managed to secure a global network …
Ten Nonprofit Funding Models - Stanford Social Innovation Review
Mar 16, 2009 · William Landes Foster is a partner at the Bridgespan Group, where he advises direct service nonprofits and foundations and leads research on social sector funding. He is a coauthor of “Should Nonprofits Seek Profits?” (Harvard Business Review, February 2005), “How Nonprofits Get Really Big” (Stanford Social Innovation Review, spring 2007), and “Money to Grow On” (Stanford Social ...
The Invisible Rural Access Barrier - Stanford Social Innovation Review
Apr 27, 2023 · Economic Development The Invisible Rural Access Barrier . More than one billion people live in rural, isolated areas in low-income countries. Improving their access to roads and transportation is a prerequisite to unlocking better health, education, and economic outcomes.