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Honest Brokers, Technology, and Health Justice: What Are We Learning?

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: anuwat Sikham on iStock In healthcare and social services, amid an aging population and an increased demand for care, there is a growing need for neutralor at least quasi-neutral honest brokers who can build trust and balance the conflicts of competing parties. The first is resource allocation.

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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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One in Five Nonprofit Workers Can’t Afford Basic Expenses

NonProfit Quarterly

We do think that anybody that dedicates their life in civil society should be able to take care of their monthly financial needs… Twenty-two percent of 13.9 Within healthcare, pockets of financial instability persist in areas like residential care facilities, where 33 to 35 percent of workers are below the ALICE threshold.

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Maybe nonprofit governance aint what it needs to be?

Philanthropy 2173

I want to think about what it means - if anything - for civil society. First, it seems that no one in civil society or the U.S. Yet, as noted in the intro, voices in civil society and philanthropy have been awfully quiet about this "impact" on AI. The nonprofit sector ain't what you think it is.

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85% Of United Nations’ Sustainable Goals Not Being Met

The NonProfit Times

For example, AI techniques developed for image recognition in healthcare can also be applied to assess signs of disease in crops or moisture content in soil. Additionally, AI capabilities will continue to advance and create opportunities for innovation across domains.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Common Challenges

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

These technologies are more than just catchphrases; they reshape hub industries like retail, healthcare, and finance. This lack of model interpretability and explainability presents challenges for organizational adoption, especially in sensitive domains like finance and healthcare. Chapters Artificial Intelligence: What Is It?

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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.