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Encouraging Human Creativity in the AI-Powered Future

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Thats why, in public policy circles, we must nurture and reward innovation in as well as from AI. Even in the arts, AI is not simply imitating existing styles but collaborating with human artists to enable new forms of creative expression, as seen in Refik Anadols 2023 AI art display at the Museum of Modern Art.

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The New Problem-Solving Skills That All Cities Need

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This required a sustained emergency posture and high degrees of creativity, agility, and collaboration. Tara McGuinness and Anne-Marie Slaughter position this as a new approach at problems that is distinct from traditional policy making and is people-centered, experiential, data-enabled, and designed to scale.

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Reimagining the Role of Business in Protecting Biodiversity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For instance, the start-up Solugen has developed a novel process that uses genetically engineered enzymes to process bio-based feedstocks into cleaning solutions, personal care products and other chemicals while eliminating toxic outputs and reducing energy consumption. Contribute to ecosystem restoration.

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Lessons From the Failures of Covax

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Without an equally unprecedented level of coordination and collaboration—requiring rigorously examining the lessons of the pandemic response—all of us will be impacted by these future challenges, particularly people living in global majority (or lower- and middle-income) countries.

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Whose Capital? Our Capital! The Power of Workers’ Pensions for the Common Good

NonProfit Quarterly

2 (Many teachers and public sector workers, by the way, do not receive Social Security benefits, which only adds to the insecurity. Pension funds should follow other institutional investors that are shifting from investing in fossil fuels to investing in clean, renewable energy. 18 As AFSCME Local 3299 lays it out: B.

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Employee Ownership Policy Makes Major Gains—Next Up, Implementation

NonProfit Quarterly

As worker cooperative and employee ownership advocates look toward turning the two bills from 2022 into action, it’s important to look back to understand how these successes were made possible, how each federal and state win has become greater than the sum of its parts, and where implementation energy must be focused.

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Empowering Community Voices: The Strategic Advantage of Nonprofit Advisory Committees

Blue Avocado

2 Say you’re a nonprofit working in the area of houselessness and want to put together an advisory committee of people with legislative and policy development experience to advance systemic changes in your community. Work in Collaboration, Not Competition When done well, maintaining one (or more!)