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Putting Patients at the Heart of Medical Research

Citizen Science

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Putting Patients at the Heart of Medical Research A model for patient-centered care Jess Rimington and Joanna L. Cea

Slowly But Surely, Foundations Are Changing How They Invest Their Endowments

Proximate Investing

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Slowly But Surely, Foundations Are Changing How They Invest Their Endowments As grantees ask hard questions about where their grant money comes from, more donors are trusting values-aligned asset managers with their endowments Oscar Perry Abello

Repairing Development • Issue 4 What Happened to Resourcefulness?

Repairing Development Newsletter

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What Happened to Resourcefulness?Too often there's a narrative that people are operating in deficiency. But in fact, they are demonstrating resourcefulness Isabelle Clérié

Repairing Development • Issue 3 Shiny Resumes, Stale Ideas

Repairing Development Newsletter

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Repairing Development • Issue 3 Shiny Resumes, Stale Ideas To development practitioners – please actively unlearn what you think you know about the Global Majority Isabelle Clérié

Repairing Development • Issue 2 We Need More Anthropologists in Development

Repairing Development Newsletter

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We Need More Anthropologists in Development As we talk about community-led anything, there is an urgency to build anthropological skill sets like participant observation and thick description Isabelle Clérié

Repairing Development • Issue 1 USAID’s Freeze and the Future of Aid

Repairing Development Newsletter

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USAID’s Freeze and the Future of Aid Welcome to a new newsletter for Proximate, where I reflect on the possibilities for a world without traditional international aid.Isabelle Clérié

Proximate Brasil

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Our Vision for Proximate Brasil An exploration of participatory problem-solving in Brazil, by Brazilians Joana Ribeiro Mortari

Proximate is an independent media platform covering movements for participatory problem-solving. We look at the news through the lens of money: how it’s given away, how it’s invested, and how it’s distributed by government.
We are a fiscally sponsored project of Movement Strategy Center.

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