Community businesses - helping make places better
From a report by Power to Change
"With their ability to adapt and respond swiftly to their communities’ changing needs, community businesses are playing an integral role in levelling up the country towards a fairer economy."
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Breaking Free from Benefits
From a book by Julie Hawkins, Founder Single Mums'
Julie Hawkins had to take benefits when she became a single mum. A system in which she was trapped by a lot of barriers at great cost - both financially to taxpayer and personally to individuals. Her suggestions for change...
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Belonging
From a talk by Lisa Cherry
The need to belong is a fundamental and human motivation. And that means we will find somewhere to belong to regardless of whether it's healthy, regardless of whether it's safe. Regardless of anything, we'll find somewhere to belong to.
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It takes one person to change a company
From an article by Harvard Business Review
While corporate transformations are almost universally assumed to be top-down processes, in reality, middle managers and supervisors can make significant social impact change when they have the right mindset.
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From community involvement to community engagement
From a report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundatio
Transformational community-driven engagement shares power with community and is built on trust, transparency, and mutual accountability. Shifting power to the community can be done in a variety of ways.
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Dismantling the poverty premium
From a report by the Centre for Social Justice (CS
Limited means of consumers on low incomes reduces their economic flexibility, creates costly choices, which then serves to reduce their overall means. This cycle of paying over the odds makes up the poverty premium.
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Making Change: What Works
From research by IPPR
Movements change the world. Throughout history, loosely organised networks of individuals and organisations have sought changes to societies – and won. What can we learn from success or failure?
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Buying local - food
From a presentation at a GoLab Conference
In Colombia, a law mandates all gov. agencies that buy food eg hospitals, schools, etc., buy a min of 30% of food from local small holders/farms. Addresses rural poverty, cuts food miles, helps food security, creates local markets.
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Effects of grandparents' involvement
From an article by the Institute of Family Studies
About half of grandparents, in U.S. and Europe, provide some kind of childcare to their grandchildren. How does grandparents' involvement affect their own lives, their children, their grandchildren? 5 observations...
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Reducing discrimination between groups
From an article from Behavioral Scientist
A 'shared identity' helps bring people together. We may have institutions that make it hard for some to stay part of a common identity. People are not hardwired to be racist, etc - we are hardwired to be group-ish.
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Online - Business Fights Poverty Global Summit - Day 1
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Amid escalating challenges that are driving a poverty tsunami and threatening the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), join our Global Summit to explore the critical role of business in sustainable development.
Connect with global peers, gain insights, share experiences, and implement impactful change.
21/06/2023
13:30
Online - Business Fights Poverty Global Summit - Day 2
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Amid escalating challenges that are driving a poverty tsunami and threatening the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), join our Global Summit to explore the critical role of business in sustainable development.
Connect with global peers, gain insights, share experiences, and implement impactful change.
22/06/2023
13:30