The NonProfit Times

MAY 20, 2024

There are many access points to this technology. But also, publishing civil society work with meticulous attention to detail and context, often invisible to others, fosters diversity for future LLMs. Her email is mwebb@techsoup.org The post 5 Ways For Civil Society To Engage With AI appeared first on The NonProfit Times.

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Philanthropy 2173

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The following post is about the chaos that is now Twitter, the growth in the #fediverse, the damage being done in real time to disbursed communities of people and activists, the possibilities of digital civil society coming through to shine, and the need to think carefully and collectively. People with disabilities. Queer communities.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 23, 2023

Companies like Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Alphabet that develops technologies for sustainable urban design, are transforming business as usual to solve complex urban problems. In fact, city leaders often follow the pioneering innovations of civil society organizations.

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Philanthropy 2173

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

We founded the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford in 2014 to examine and act on the ways digital dependencies effect civil society. For the first time since I started writing this blog in 2002, the technology companies that are responsible for much of this infrastructure are facing economic headwinds.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Yet to address these problems, we need to zoom in, convening experts, civil society and affected communities to explore sustainable solutions that work in the local context. The telephoto perspective allows us to identify problems. And you need a diverse team to focus on that global-to-local perspective.

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Candid

JUNE 23, 2022

To understand how the pandemic impacted the philanthropic sector and civil society organizations around the world, we reached out to local experts who shared their observations and experiences over the past two years. Innovative technologies helped mobilize fundraising campaigns and increase donations to support these efforts.

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NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

We’ve realized that we stand here on behalf of civil society more broadly.” We didn’t want to find ourselves in this position, but we’ve realized that we stand here on behalf of civil society more broadly,” Ahmed told NPQ. Meanwhile, Ahmed says that CCDH is determined to contest the charges brought by X Corp. “We

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 17, 2022

To achieve this, more businesses need to join with the government and civil society to actively confront inequality, poverty, and climate change together. Unlock the Potential of Technology. Businesses must also embrace technological innovation. A Tyranny of Tradeoffs. Earning $1.30 a day instead of $0.87

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 25, 2023

AI technology is relatively new, but the impacts of previous high-impact innovations like the power loom, steam engines, electricity, and digital computers shed ample light on what could happen next. The consequences of any technology depend on who gets to make pivotal decisions about how the technology develops.

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Philanthropy 2173

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

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. So, perhaps its way too much of an ask to expect recognition among their own of the behemoth of technology development.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Under this structure, influence is redistributed through negotiations, with citizens, supporting civil society organization and officials all serving as empowered stakeholders. Partnership. Planning and decision-making responsibility is shared through structures such as joint board and planning committees.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 15, 2024

It can be hard for us to see how new technologies will ultimately be used. Rather than delivering pre-packaged solutions, these nonprofits empower people to customize technology to meet their own needs. Technological advancement has historically overlooked the needs of the most vulnerable.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The authors, all experienced pros on nonprofits and technology, share advice centered on these objectives: Use care, do no harm, and stay human-centered. Nonprofit and foundation leaders explore the movement working toward reparations. So what should philanthropic leaders do differently to confront these problems? Honorable Mentions: 11.

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The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Masisak’s tenure saw the creation of the TechSoup Marketplace, which now includes more than150 corporate partners, has delivered billions of dollars’ worth of technology resources to millions of civil society organizations worldwide, and is supported by a one-of-a-kind international network of capacity-building organizations.

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Candid

JULY 2, 2021

The foundation also will award $167 million in grants to address multifaceted issues such as economic justice and rights, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and technology and innovation; recipients include the Black Feminist Fund , Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID), Equality Fund , CARE Fund , and Prospera.

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The NonProfit Times

JULY 17, 2024

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the predecessor of the SDGs, saw considerable progress due to developments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to do the same for implementing and advancing progress on the SDGs, according to the authors.

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Civil Society Ethics Healthcare Governance 64

Philanthropy 2173

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

At a time when hands wring over closing civic space and the many ways technologies are being turned against us, this is the most concrete, least metaphorical example of how to shut down nonprofits I can imagine. This post only focuses on the financial elements of why this sale is bad for civil society.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

These technologies are more than just catchphrases; they reshape hub industries like retail, healthcare, and finance. Challenges of Using AI and ML Adopting artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies presents several key challenges that organizations must consider.

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Philanthropy 2173

APRIL 2, 2020

You've heard me refer to our digital technologies - the software, hardware, and telecomm choices we make - as our new landlords. In the bigger picture, you can follow, support, and get involved with your civil society peers who monitor the digital landlords and keep the pressure on them and regulators to change the way these tools work.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 25, 2023

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.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 12, 2022

There are many examples of leaders countering this myth, like the Fellows in the Civil Society Fellowship. While the story of our separation is pervasive, it is something we have the power to design our way out of. “How do we create that sense of warmth? …and nurture the relational web between us?

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

This is directly connected to another essential component of scale which usually requires a great amount of capital to be implemented: technology. Thus, unsurprisingly, most social enterprises originating in poor communities are not technology intensive. Two cases in Brazil that exemplify this difficulty are Jaubra and Weuse.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 15, 2023

Moreover, developing countries typically lack key technologies and financial resources that could help them become more resilient to climate change and its impacts. Particular efforts should be made to address and assuage the political and logistic concerns of lenders and borrowers.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

A study on the working conditions in Kenya’s gig economy , for example, was written by two African researchers, who not only surveyed hundreds of gig workers but also involved civil society and policy makers during a multi-stakeholder dialogue and a panel discussion in Nairobi. A first challenge is to find suitable collaborators.

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Philanthropy 2173

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

@CripCamp Intersectionality Matters with Kimberlé Crenshaw (podcast, includes video interviews from AAPF Under the Blacklight Series) @sandylocks Hear to Slay , Roxanne Gay and Tressie McMillan Cottom, podcast, @rgay and @tressiemcphd Philanthropy and Social Movements Podcast , class taught by Megan Ming Francis Through The Night Film , by Loira Limbal, (..)

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 9, 2016

My journey as a fundraiser began back in the ’90s, before technology dominated the landscape. As far as dollars, that’s a lot of money, but it’s not the most money, and it’s certainly not the first place I would ever think to look when I have my fundraising cap on. And I wear my cap often.

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Foundations Civil Society Leadership Technology 42

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In these articles, we offer powerful practices to restore health and wellbeing within organizations, weigh in on civil societys role in the struggle over reproductive rights, and tease out critical nuances in the relationship between technology and health.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 24, 2024

A market innovation like creating a sustainable seafood market is unlikely to create enduring systems change without building strong relationships with civil society. They can choose clear interventions (e.g., focused on direct services), complicated interventions (e.g., focused on transforming enabling conditions and capacities).

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 17, 2022

All sectors have a role to play in achieving climate justice, but it’s fair to say that compared to government and civil society, business is late in addressing the challenge and is in fact frequently called out as part of the problem. Why Climate Justice Matters to Business.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

There’s technology that records facial expressions and tone of voice to collect “mood and sentiment analysis” to measure employees’ affect and attitude. Today’s high-tech surveillance technologies are exploiting the same loopholes in our labor laws that date back generations.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Google solved the problem with networks : By engineering connections among hundreds of thousands of computers, Google radically expanded what their search technology could do. But networks are not only key to speed and scale in the technology sector; the same is true for ambitious climate policy. But 2023 also saw great progress.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 18, 2024

Instead, they can lean into the uniquely human elements of their job in ways that require emotional and contextual assessment and insight that technology cannot replicate. We’ve seen this same scenario play out with other technological leaps forward, time and time again. Nearly one in five home healthcare aides lives in poverty.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 1, 2024

But by “weaponizing” this technology, we’ve made it much harder to regulate, as it has undoubtedly led to policies aimed at stockpiling resources to achieve national supremacy over the tech. And in many ways, we will need to govern globally from behind, because much of the technology and the foundational models are already out there.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 13, 2019

By Rafia Khader , Program Manager at the Lake Institute on Faith & Giving and Managing Editor of the Journal of Muslim Philanthropy & Civil Society. Faith and giving are intrinsically tied with one another.

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Philanthropy 2173

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

There are lots of efforts to ensure access - the EU's Digital Services Ac t, proposed legislation called the Platform Accountability and Transparency Act in the US, and the Coalition for Independent Technology Research - but none are perfect and all must reckon with serious concerns about people's privacy. This is a sector-wide issue.

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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. All of this is further compounded by the simultaneous threat and opportunity of changing technology.

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The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 15, 2024

By Shaista Keating and Chloe Mankin The rapid evolution and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence technologies (AI) offer both opportunities and challenges to civil society, particularly concerning responsible and ethical usage. Her email is skeating@techsoup.org. Her email is cmankin@techsoup.org.

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