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A Historical Model for AI Regulation and Collaboration

Stanford Social Innovation Review

People were afraid that employers and health insurance companies would use the data from genome mapping to discriminate, and they demanded a public policy response. I believe we can achieve such cooperation again to ensure AI advancements help humanity thrive. Like AI, one of the main concerns around genome mapping was privacy.

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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. Voting closes Friday, September 23 so vote now please!

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Lessons From the Failures of Covax

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In retrospect, we can see with a borderless threat like COVID-19, collaboration was stymied across and within countries: Lacking clearly defined and owned targets, country responses often failed to meaningfully engage civil society. For example, COVAX’s anchor organizations—Gavi, WHO and UNICEF—fought over turf.

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Building an Equitable Future by Centering Young Voices

Stanford Social Innovation Review

They know that young people, who represent the future of the country, must be protagonists in this process because their energy, ideas, and fresh perspectives are essential to imagining and building a peaceful country.

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Democracy in Peril: In South Africa, Will Philanthropy Back Economic Justice?

NonProfit Quarterly

These laws, purportedly designed as a check on foreign interference, limit civil society organizations and restrict democratic practice by cutting off funding from foundations to movement organizations. Yet philanthropy often supports neoliberal policies that reinforce the market power of elites—and perpetuate poverty.

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It’s Not Just You: Bernie Sanders Makes the Case for Passionate Movements

NonProfit Quarterly

As public policy has done less and less to mitigate the suffering of millions, faith in the government has declined. But he also offers a blueprint for how to guarantee livable wages, liberate students from a lifetime of debt, and transition energy systems away from fossil fuels.

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Corporate Capture—Can We Find a Way Out?

NonProfit Quarterly

45 Additionally, worker cooperatives, once marginal in the world of public policy, have since 2018 won an impressive string of legislative victories at both the federal and state level. 46 The path beyond the current status quo will be paved with brave commitments to democratic and distributive models at every level of civil society.