Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

To date, most funders investing in artificial intelligence—including McGovern, Schmidt Futures, and Open Philanthropy—have focused primarily on understanding AI’s potential risks, or supporting AI’s positive impacts on society, in the longer-term. Building government (and civil society) capacity to use AI. This might include: 1.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Its roots lie in the environmental justice movement in the United States, where, in the 1990s, activists called out the disproportionate impact of pollutants on Black communities in North Carolina. It has also highlighted human and environmental interconnectedness and galvanized large-scale, rapid collective action to respond and recover.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 11, 2024

Perhaps more importantly, they dismiss philanthropy’s critical role in society, ignore evidence of philanthropy’s role in successful social change, and fail to recognize how philanthropists and practitioners have learned and improved over time. We know of no foundation—even the largest—that thinks it replaces government.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 28, 2023

Their experiences show how the interdependencies of the SDGs come to life at the local level: Ending homelessness requires addressing issues of poverty, mental and physical health, quality employment, environmental justice, and climate change—in addition to safe and affordable housing.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 1, 2024

To responsibly capitalize on AI, we should drive toward international cooperation that truly enables us to govern both the development of safe and reliable foundational models; provide access to industry, academia, and civil society to build off of the best possible data; and invest in mitigating ethical, legal, and social concerns.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

Amber Grant Foundation. Foundation for Women. Kellogg Foundation. The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation. 100 Women Charitable Foundation. Chicago Foundation for Women. The California Wellness Foundation. Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. The Patrina Foundation. Boulware Foundation.

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Health Entrepreneurship Foundations Education 98

The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 6, 2024

(Photo By Deposit Photos) By Marnie Webb From the frontlines of disaster relief to the forefront of technological innovation, civil society organizations are navigating a rapidly changing landscape. What does this mean for civil society in the coming year? People around the globe shared tens of thousands of words.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 11, 2025

We see signals of such a redefinition in the One Health paradigm in management of zoonotic disease, which recognizes that the interconnections between human, animal, and environmental health, viewing each as part of a larger whole.

Agriculture 69

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

By Tim Hanstad To build an equitable and sustainable society, the social sector cannot take the place of the government, as Mark Kramer and Steve Phillips recently observed ; “Only government has the capacity to address social and environmental problems on a national scale.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Access to news is key to an engaged civil society, and without it, social worlds shrink and become suffused with disinformation and bias. Even though union revenue is much less than corporations in general, Bohner explain, their budgets are “substantially bigger than those of environmental, human rights, and political organizations.”

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 13, 2024

The founder of Duty Free Shoppers, he anonymously donated most of his self-made, $8 billion fortune via Atlantic Philanthropies, a suite of foundations incorporated in Bermuda, which meant he was unable to deduct his charitable giving from his U.S. When Naming Gifts Can Harm Charitable naming gifts are replete with symbolism.

Ethics 122

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NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 4, 2023

I went to a Muslim foundation philanthropy event in Dearborn, recently. We were able to recruit 29 foundations to sign on to this pledge to increase their funding to at least 30 percent to BIPOC-led environmental justice movements. We’re feeling the need to raise awareness within our”—let’s say—“corporation” or “foundation.

Philanthropy 105

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2022

But the current one-world paradigm is losing coherence, as the edges and foundations of other worlds—already here or still on the horizon—become more visible. In some locations, solidarity economy is institutionalized and recognized by the state but in others involves civil society and informal practices. Colonialism.”

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NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 16, 2023

This was a moment of reckoning within the climate movement: environmental justice advocates were rightfully mad at the ultimate outcomes done behind closed doors at the last minute, and other folks who are far more focused on carbon reduction were lauding the bill. It’s all carrots, very few sticks. It’s a good phrase.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The administration has signaled its intention to defund diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA); climate change and environmental justice; gender ideology extremism; Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies; and more. Some nonprofits have chosen self-censorship. And so, we need to be ready.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2024

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. The path beyond the current status quo will be paved with brave commitments to democratic and distributive models at every level of civil society. Benjamin Y.

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