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. It is this idea that propels the work of Lake Institute on Faith & Giving at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.

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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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Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 12, 2022

As a professor at Princeton in 1949, Albert Einstein reflected on the place of human beings in the universe. In correspondence with a rabbi, he wrote that due to our limitations in our ability to experience the universe, our species is prone to a fundamental misunderstanding about our place in it.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

When contemplating migration that can deliver massive income gains to low-income households and benefits to both sending and receiving economies—but must maintain public support in a difficult political climate—public, private, and civil society actors all play important roles in a complex system’s effective functioning.

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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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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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Others, like the Ford, MacArthur, and Hewlett Foundations, and Omidyar Network, have focused on building the capacity to address the risks and opportunities posed by a wide range of technologies, including, but not limited to, artificial intelligence. Building government (and civil society) capacity to use AI. The future is now.

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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

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. In fact, many of the ideas around what AI can achieve has been influenced by the notion that it’s as powerful as a nuclear weapon.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 13, 2024

Consider the $10 million lead gift in 2019 from writer and artist Carolyn Campagna Kleefield to California State University, Long Beach’s contemporary art museum that now bears her name. In 2002, the university shortened the building’s name to Memorial Hall in support of inclusion and academic freedom, and UDC sued for breach of contract.

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MARCH 5, 2020

Original post Since we started the Digital Civil Society Lab I’ve been invited to countless conferences, workshops, and philanthropic or corporate launches of “some kind of tech” for “some kind of good.” There is no universal definition of good. 4) Commercial technologies prioritize scale and efficiency. I always say no.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

These cases, on opposite sides of the globe, illustrate with painful clarity how the irresponsible use of artificial intelligence can harm both workers and the public, and how unregulated technology in the workplace also hurts communities. How can investors make sure new workplace technologies are a force for good?

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 12, 2023

By SSIR Editors The way we work is changing rapidly and is impacted daily by technological advances. If designed and harnessed responsibly, technology can help us reimagine how we work, where we work, and what work we do. However, when designed poorly, tech can harm workers and exacerbate inequalities. Subscribe to SSIR here.)

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 30, 2023

The gains would be universal, and in the new internet economy, everyone would have a place. Indeed, these digital technologies would enable people to transcend the geographic boundaries that constrained their ability to pursue the lives they valued, enabling them to acquire more social, economic, and political power.

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 16, 2024

In our era of rapid healthcare transformation, technological innovations have brought many promising breakthroughs. Evolving health technology has brought remarkable benefits. However, these breakthroughs often assume a level of access, infrastructure, and digital literacy that is far from universal. 37 percent.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Book cover by Oxford University Press Truth to Power is a regular series of conversations with writers about the promises and pitfalls of movements for social justice. MG: There is an interdependence between our political structures and our civil society structures. How has that harmed democratic practice?

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