Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 17, 2022

To achieve this, more businesses need to join with the government and civil society to actively confront inequality, poverty, and climate change together. Unlock the Potential of Technology. Businesses must also embrace technological innovation. A Tyranny of Tradeoffs. Earning $1.30 a day instead of $0.87

Agriculture 106

Agriculture Civil Society Poverty Environmental 106

Candid

JULY 2, 2021

The foundation also will award $167 million in grants to address multifaceted issues such as economic justice and rights, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and technology and innovation; recipients include the Black Feminist Fund , Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID), Equality Fund , CARE Fund , and Prospera.

Civil Society 91

Civil Society Health Governance Leadership 91

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

This is directly connected to another essential component of scale which usually requires a great amount of capital to be implemented: technology. Thus, unsurprisingly, most social enterprises originating in poor communities are not technology intensive. Human capital is positively associated with creativity and value creation.

Social Entrepreneurship 128

Social Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship Social Enterprise Social Enterprise 128

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

These technologies are more than just catchphrases; they reshape hub industries like retail, healthcare, and finance. Challenges of Using AI and ML Adopting artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies presents several key challenges that organizations must consider.

Civil Society 52

Civil Society Healthcare Finance Technology 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 15, 2023

Moreover, developing countries typically lack key technologies and financial resources that could help them become more resilient to climate change and its impacts. Particular efforts should be made to address and assuage the political and logistic concerns of lenders and borrowers.

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Environmental Governance Civil Society 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 12, 2022

There are many examples of leaders countering this myth, like the Fellows in the Civil Society Fellowship. They start by moving clients away from thinking of racism as something associated with personal bigotry and bias toward an understanding that is historical, cultural, and structural.

Leadership 116

Leadership Civil Society Collaborations Universities 116

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 24, 2024

A market innovation like creating a sustainable seafood market is unlikely to create enduring systems change without building strong relationships with civil society. Rather, fragmented progress was being made on each of these issues, but in a lower impact way. They can choose clear interventions (e.g.,

Civil Society 133

Civil Society Energy Collaborations Leadership 133

Philanthropy 2173

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

There are lots of efforts to ensure access - the EU's Digital Services Ac t, proposed legislation called the Platform Accountability and Transparency Act in the US, and the Coalition for Independent Technology Research - but none are perfect and all must reckon with serious concerns about people's privacy. This is a sector-wide issue.

Civil Society 52

Civil Society Governance Culture Associations 52

The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 15, 2024

By Shaista Keating and Chloe Mankin The rapid evolution and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence technologies (AI) offer both opportunities and challenges to civil society, particularly concerning responsible and ethical usage. The act prohibits unacceptable risks associated with manipulative AI.

Civil Society 105

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Ethics Public and Nonprofit Management 105

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Others, like the Ford, MacArthur, and Hewlett Foundations, and Omidyar Network, have focused on building the capacity to address the risks and opportunities posed by a wide range of technologies, including, but not limited to, artificial intelligence. Building government (and civil society) capacity to use AI. The future is now.

Civil Society 129

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 129

The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

These spaces are the backbone of our democratic right to free association, and they are increasingly under threat. All of this will at the same time serve the broader goal of ensuring that our democratic right to free association remains intact. It is, importantly, also the right of free association. Fact-checking is not enough.

Associations 52

Associations Public and Social Policy Civil Society Public and Nonprofit Management 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

When contemplating migration that can deliver massive income gains to low-income households and benefits to both sending and receiving economies—but must maintain public support in a difficult political climate—public, private, and civil society actors all play important roles in a complex system’s effective functioning.

Public and Social Policy 144

Public and Social Policy Finance Recruitment Poverty 144

Philanthropy 2173

MARCH 27, 2020

I've been arguing for several years now that civil society is dependent on digital systems, which are not neutral, designed with civil society in mind, or inately democratizing. This is the entire premise of the Digital Civil Society Lab. That's another way of saying civil society is digital civil society.

Civil Society 40

Civil Society Governance Activism Associations 40

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 13, 2024

The intellectual most associated with classical utilitarianism (also known as consequentialism) is the 18th-century British philosopher and legal scholar Jeremy Bentham. Such clauses enable organizations to terminate an agreement if a donor’s conduct causes scandal or brings disgrace by association to the institution.

Ethics 122

Ethics Public and Social Policy Universities Philanthropy 122

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 30, 2023

Indeed, these digital technologies would enable people to transcend the geographic boundaries that constrained their ability to pursue the lives they valued, enabling them to acquire more social, economic, and political power. The gains would be universal, and in the new internet economy, everyone would have a place.

Race and Ethnicity 145

Race and Ethnicity Public and Social Policy Civil Society Governance 145

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 26, 2023

As policy makers struggle to respond to the unfolding human catastrophe, they have increasingly turned to the possibilities offered by technology, and data in particular. Yet as is so often the case with technology, the potential for good is accompanied by certain risks.

Public and Social Policy 52

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Ethics Governance 52

The NonProfit Times

AUGUST 22, 2024

These spaces are the backbone of our democratic right to free association, and they are increasingly under threat. All of this will at the same time serve the broader goal of ensuring that our democratic right to free association remains intact. It is, importantly, also the right of free association. Fact-checking is not enough.

Associations 52

Associations Public and Social Policy Civil Society Public and Nonprofit Management 52

Philanthropy 2173

MARCH 29, 2023

Photo by Viktor Talashuk on Unsplash Civil society organizations are on the front lines of advocating for or against the most divisive issues in the United States. The links are almost entirely to civil society organizations fighting to protect the rights to free expression, free assembly, voting, reproduction, and work.

Civil Society 59

Civil Society Law Education Education 59

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

MG: There is an interdependence between our political structures and our civil society structures. The difference is that at the national level, new technologies make it possible…to reach so many more people, raise money that way, [and] conduct elections that way. His new book, Power and Progress , is about power and technology.

Culture 119

Culture Energy Governance Leadership 119