Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Increasing transparency and accountability with multi-stakeholder frameworks: Moving the needle on improving governance is more likely when stakeholders from civil society and the business sector join. Co-Develop is a global non-profit fund helping governments accelerate their digital transformation journeys.

Public and Social Policy 130

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Governance Poverty 130

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Most obviously, funders working in specific issue areas—climate, health, education, or in my case, democracy—can work to support efforts downstream to prepare government and civil society in their respective sectors to take advantage of the opportunities and mitigate the risks of AI on their specific areas of concern.

Civil Society 129

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 129

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.

Governance 142

Governance Civil Society Public and Social Policy Ethics 142

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Later investigation found the AI system had systematically discriminated against non-white Dutch citizens. Another algorithmically-controlled system subsequently decided that some of those parents’ income could no longer support their families, and nearly 1,700 children were forcibly removed from their homes.

Public and Social Policy 143

Public and Social Policy Governance Civil Society Technology 143

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

charity: water is a non-profit bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations. Women for Women International provides women survivors of war, civil strife and other conflicts with the tools and resources to move from crisis and poverty to stability and self-sufficiency, thereby promoting viable civil societies.

Poverty 111

Poverty Civil Society Medical Education 111

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In some locations, solidarity economy is institutionalized and recognized by the state but in others involves civil society and informal practices. Common to all efforts is a politics that seeks economic justice and advances relations, institutions, and practices that put people and planet over profit. Summer 2020. Kelley, RDG.

Non-Profits 116

Non-Profits Universities Collaborations Ethics 116

Candid

MARCH 16, 2022

Making grants internationally directly from private foundations or donor advised funds to non-U.S. Some funders likely use ER already to make domestic grants for charitable work at non-charitable enterprises, so the process should be familiar. Namely: Russia’s civil society has been under assault for decades.

Non-Profits 105

Non-Profits Civil Society Foundations Law 105

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 2, 2024

People joined from more than 15 countries, representing business, government, and civil society. It’s different from traditional ownership structures because company profit, usually paid as dividends to shareholders, is available to employees. Employee-owned businesses are more profitable and productive.

Public and Social Policy 138

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Finance Non-Profits 138

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Unlike in typical agricultural value chains, this has brought substantial rewards in terms of higher and more stable prices, and profit distributions, for the 3.6 From humble beginnings as a single cooperative in newly independent India in the 1940s, GCMMF has become Indias largest dairy processor with revenues of over $4 billion in 2016.

Governance 72

Governance Public and Social Policy Production Finance 72

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Meanwhile, even mission-oriented enterprises struggle to achieve net positive impacts since the logic of shareholder primacy always encourages them to maximize profit at the expense of everything and everyone else. Fortunately, there is a rich body of work which does just that: alternative ownership enterprises.

Non-Profits 139

Non-Profits Nonprofit governance and management Finance Governance 139