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The Next 4 Years: Tapping Into Nonprofit Expertise

The NonProfit Times

Secretary of Homeland Security Jacob Wood Co-Founder & Executive Board Chairman Team Rubicon Team Rubicon became one of the most impactful nonprofits under Wood’s leadership. Dillen has litigated precedent-setting cases that have held polluters accountable and cleared the way for clean energy projects. Here are a few suggestions.

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Insurance in a Climate-Changed World

NonProfit Quarterly

Donors and governments may shift their dollars…to focusing on necessities like food, water, energy, and healthcare. Unless we act aggressively to curb emissions, climate change will continue to put pressure on our insurance system and society at large. Pressures on Civil Society Financial experts warn of cascading impacts.

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Better Climate Funding Means Centering Local and Indigenous Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For example, another recent study on African conservation funding practices finds that 92 percent of African civil society organizations struggle to access sufficient core funding, 71 percent of them identified short-term project structures as a key barrier, and 52 percent find existing proposal and reporting requirements to be a barrier.

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A Historical Model for AI Regulation and Collaboration

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In 1990, governments around the world, with the leadership of the United States, began a 13-year effort to map human DNA through the Human Genome Project (HGP). There has been movement on US leadership in AI, and that trend should continue alongside establishing a lever for global collaboration.

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Overcoming the Myth of Separateness

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In the context of leadership, separation manifests as leadership by domination—those with power and those without, and those trying to achieve power over others rather than finding power with others. And we need our understanding of leadership to evolve, too. Countering the Myth of Separateness.

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Why Organizers Need Mobilizers and Mobilizers Need Organizers

Stanford Social Innovation Review

coordinated with other organizations, working closely with the Human Rights Law Center , large professional NGOs, and civil society organizations whose strengths lay in advocacy, and unions that were known for their powerful organizing. The principles created a methodology for shared leadership. Rather than acting alone, GetUp!

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Please Vote ‘Em Up: Communications Sessions @ NTC 2012 (NTEN Conference)

Getting Attention

Visual storytelling has the power to move public policy, incite or halt wars, and alter the course of civil society and this high-energy panel will showcase the impact of visual content to powerfully advance issues, causes and organizational impact. Say it in Pixels: Visual Storytelling in the 21st centur y.