Does Social Innovation Actually Drive Gender Equity?
David McGintyPalladium International
Food Security and Climate Resilience Require Land Rights Reform
Andy CurrierLandesa
"@TaranaBurke gave us tool that helped so many people finally talk about something that was too difficult to ever utter out loud before." – @MonicaRamirezDC on #MeToo
'Gov partnerships critical pathways to scale'. They enable public systems transformation & when 600 million children are being failed effective scaling at speed is essential for big impact. Trouble is, few have the infrastructure or tech! @SkollFoundation
Scaling Pathways: Leveraging Government Partnerships for Scaled Impact - Skoll.org
Partnering with government offers enormous potential to scale a product or service across regions or even nationwide.
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We are deeply saddened by the passing of Jockin Arputham, founder of Slum Dwellers International. The Skoll Awardee spent his career helping slum residents stand up for their rights and find their way out of poverty.
Our short film about his work: https://t.co/W4avRG9ooi
“If we are building bikes, but we are only making the frames and wheels—well, then we don’t have bikes.” @CodeforAmerica founder @pahlkadot on a systems-approach to government partnerships. #ScalingPathways https://t.co/oazA8fZkHF
21% Of Y Combinator’s Female Founders Say Investors Have Sexually Harassed Them via @RMac18
21% Of Y Combinator’s Female Founders Say Investors Have Sexually Harassed Them
Of the 88 women who completed the survey, 18 said they experienced at least one or more inappropriate incidents, ranging from “unwanted sexual o...
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It's been a year since #MeToo went viral. At #SkollWF, a panel of survivors and activists @lara @MonicaRamirezDC @Nguyen_Amanda & @SohiniBee explored how to turn the momentum into concrete action for the most marginalized women around the world. @devex
Beyond #MeToo: Female leaders talk about what needs to happen next
Speakers at the Skoll World Forum tackle the issue of how to translate the momentum of the #MeToo and #TimesUp social movements into concrete action f...
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"There is nothing opaque about this new data. The illustrations of mounting impacts, the fast-approaching and irreversible tipping points are visceral versions of a future that no policy-maker could wish to usher in or be responsible for.” - @CFigueres
World leaders told they must act over climate change 'cliff-edge'
Christiana Figueres, who led the 2015 Paris accord, stresses urgency of meeting 1.5C target
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Jennifer Palkha, Founder & Executive Director or Code for America, at #WIRED25: But to say the government is broken, so let’s abandon it, is really different than saying it’s broken and let’s fix it while we still have a democracy that we can fix.
Jennifer Pahlka, founder of @codeforamerica, offers up some practical advice on how governments can become more delivery-driven in the digital age: https://t.co/MlkIx2CL3R
🎧On the latest episode of @TEDRadioHour: @GlobalNamati founder @VivekHMaru on the movement to make legal support accessible to those who need it most.
"4 billion people live without access to basic human justice. But we've been ignoring it."
Vivek Maru: How Can We Make Legal Support Accessible To All?
Often, people who don't understand the law or can't pay for lawyers end up being mistreated. Lawyer Vivek Maru calls for a global community of paraleg...
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Girls in rural communities have the potential to make history, but many don't have the chance to do so. @Camfed supports marginalized girls across sub-Saharan Africa to step up for change. @FionaMavhinga #RuralWomensDay
Fear Doesn’t Live Here: Fighting Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa - Skoll.org
By: Fiona Mavhinga, Founder, Camfed’s CAMA alumnae network “I have seen girls suffer,” Mary told me. “And I knew I had to spe...
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INFOGRAPHIC: Powerful criminal networks and individual traffickers on both sides of the US-Mexico border recruit people for labor or sexual exploitation. To stop traffickers and support survivors, it is critical that countries collaborate internationally.
Fighting Human Trafficking Across the U.S. - Mexico Border
Every day, powerful criminal networks and individual traffickers on both sides of the border recruit people for labor or sexual exploitation. To stop ...
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"For me it's not about saving Africa," says @FredSwaniker. "It's about saving the world—so that we don't have to go to Mars. It's about driving global prosperity and solving many of the problems we see in the world." @alueducation #SkollWF #MondayMotivation
"0% of female founders should be ever be harassed, coerced, or experience unwanted sexual contact by investors."
@callisto + @ycombinator released the results of a survey of female founders. How they're working to combat harassment in the investor space: https://t.co/ObO2XnLvYe
Survey of YC female founders on sexual coercion and assault by angel and VC investors
Earlier this year we funded Callisto, a non-profit dedicated to building tech to combat sexual assault and harassment. During their time at YC, we he...
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