The NonProfit Times

AUGUST 22, 2024

It provides a way of thinking about building policies, procedures, and structures in online spaces. This can engender public cynicism and directly impact those organizations trying to support their community members. It also means steering clear of those platforms that do not provide adequate protection for their community members.

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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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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 4, 2024

But putting unchecked development in the hands of (primarily) male tech executives who espouse a particular Silicon Valley ethos oriented toward profit and dominance above all else, will only intensify threats to our social systems and vulnerable communities. We need a new roadmap.

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NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 16, 2023

Our research is oriented toward shifting the frontier in terms of big, visionary policy….It’s We then formed the Climate and Community Project, which has turned into a progressive climate policy think tank that does research and works with community groups and policymakers. We’re in this very complicated moment for climate policy.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

At this uncertain time, as the potential use-cases of generative AI begin to become apparent, there are at least 10 things that funders can do to help the existing field of tech-related nonprofits—and society at large—better prepare. Building government (and civil society) capacity to use AI. The future is now.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The report is just one of many clarion calls to act urgently, not just on climate change but also on climate justice: the process of finding solutions to climate change that also address social inequities due to gender, race, ethnicity, geography, income, and other factors. Why Climate Justice Matters to Business.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 25, 2023

By Trevor Zimmer In May, the COVID-19 national public health emergency officially ended. As the world emerges from this period of death, economic displacement, and social reordering, it will take years to fully understand how the pandemic impacted households, communities, and countries.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

My peers and I in the CHIC networkalong with many other social innovators and supporters like the Skoll Foundationhave been driving toward systemic change on this issue, from different angles, for decades. Skoll has observed that successful social movements often share a special sauce that elevates their effectiveness: a system orchestrator.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Even where there is overall economic growth, continued concentration of ownership prevents ordinary working people, and marginalized communities in particular, from reaping the benefits of their contributions, reinforcing power imbalances and social inequalities.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Studies have shown that foundation ownership, a steward ownership model popular in Northern Europe, results in many positive effects for workers, firm performance, and their social objectives. An economy based on alternative ownership enterprises would anchor a new system of finance and business.

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NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 17, 2025

Diane Yentel, CEO of the National Council of Nonprofits (NCN) calls these efforts a coordinated assault on civil society and democracy. A huge funding gapwill be almost impossible to closewithout some creative thinking about new revenue streams like increased fees for services or social enterprise ventures.

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