As 2018 Elections Approach, States and Business Must Drive Climate-Smart Policy
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Now Is the Time to Chart a Path for AI in Education
Stavros YiannoukaWorld Innovation Summit for Education
Smallholder farmers who produce most of the food consumed in the developing world are some of the poorest people on Earth. What would it for them to secure land and make a sustainable living?
Social entrepreneurs have a few answers. https://t.co/VxByrnvCa5
Residents in the small Belgian town of Geel have been taking in strangers with severe mental health problems for hundreds of years. Its model of “radical kindness” is stirring interest around the world. #WorldKindnessDay @GuardianUpside
'Care BnB'- the town where mentally ill people lodge with locals
Residents in Geel have been taking in strangers with learning disabilities for hundreds of years. Now academics are looking to the small Flemish town ...
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Liz Diebold of the @SkollFoundation shares some of her tips on partnership with government for social impact. #SocEnt
Opinion: Supporting partnerships between social entrepreneurs and government
Government partnerships hold tremendous potential for social entrepreneurs. Skoll Foundation's Liz Diebold details three concrete ways funders can sup...
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Together with governments and our partners, VillageReach works to ensure that life-saving vaccines, medicines and other essential health supplies reach the last mile for more than 20 million people throughout sub-Saharan Africa. https://t.co/SP1lO47Ypz
Always choose kindness. #WorldKindnessDay
These are the Sustainable Development Goals we've made progress on — and the ones we haven't: https://t.co/oSItBgbwOx @shepleygreen
To move from incremental to transformative systems change, funders can't do it alone. The new #ScalingSolutions report offers concrete ways to improve donor collaboration to scale solutions. https://t.co/jVmW8YJvCs
.@safeenahusain of our partner @educate_girls explains how the potential of development #impactbonds has been tapped to improve access to primary education for all children, and particularly young girls, in rural India.
Educating The Girl Child In India
BW Education - , Social Responsibility-Safeena Husain, Founder, and Executive Director Educate Girls speaks to BW Education's Deputy Editor, Dr Waqar ...
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"Achieving universal coverage for immunization and primary care represents the great challenge of our age. Leveraging the disruptive power of digital tech will provide our best chance of achieving it."
- @slaughterchuck, Founder @Living_Goods
#GotLife
By investing in rural businesses that build #farmers resilience to #climatechange, we can help make sure they can access real opportunities to earn decent incomes — whether they choose to migrate or not. @guardian
The unseen driver behind the migrant caravan: climate change
While violence and poverty have been cited as the reasons for the exodus, experts say the big picture is that changing climate is forcing farmers off ...
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Meet the first Afghan woman to climb the highest mountain in the country! "I kept telling myself that finally this was the moment an Afghan girl was going to make it to the top. I did this for every single girl.” @guardian https://t.co/2TPPUKTQ9U
Showing audiences that change is possible: Here’s a quick recap of where our films showed at festivals this year.
Festivals Around the World Screened Skoll Awardee Films in 2018 - Skoll.org
In 2018, we elevated and amplified the stories of Skoll awardees in more than 50 cities and 11 countries to show that change is possible.
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This year's Skoll World Forum was a whirlwind of invigorating conversations, celebration, and unforgettable talks from some of the world's best thinkers and practitioners in #socialentrepreneurship. Here's the roundup of our favorite moments:
Highlights from the 2018 Skoll World Forum - Skoll.org
In a world transformed by immediate digital connectivity, physical nearness—proximity—has never been more critical to crafting solutions and creat...
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How can #socents create meaningful, long-term solutions to fight injustice? How can they measure real change, not just incremental impact? Insights from @koitiemmily @Bagputys @hickspeggy @andrewhudsonau :
Measuring for Impact in Human Rights: What, Why, How, and For Whom? - Skoll.org
In a new era of global problem solving where human rights threads through all sectors, and more than 90 percent of the SDGs, measurement is key.
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The 2018 #SocialProgress Index––the "most elaborate measure of quality of life"––reveals a mix of progress and decline in basic needs, well-being, and opportunity across the globe. @TheEconomist @socprogress
Citizens’ basic needs are being met, but they lack opportunities
An index captures how some aspects of global well-being are in decline
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