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Building Community-Centered AI Collaborations

Stanford Social Innovation Review

We need creative, diverse collaborations across various fields to ensure that technology is deployed in ways that align with nonprofit values, build trust, and serve the greater good. Seeking partners outside of the tech world helps nonprofits develop AI solutions that are context-aware, equitable, and resource-sensitive.

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An Opportunity to Build, In the Crisis

Stanford Social Innovation Review

They enable the scaled, collaborative action that is the sine qua non of any adequate response in this moment. This finding aligns with the lived experience of everyone I know in the social sector, including my own during the years I worked to advance clean water at a national environmental organization.

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How Nonprofits Can Leverage Their Financial Relationships to Advance Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

Before releasing the report, in October 2024, Impact Experience convened over 30 representatives from movement organizations, impact investing firms, and environmental justice groups to share best practices, promote collaboration, and cultivate a community focused on utilizing financial systems as tools for systemic change.

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From Uprooted to Uplifted: The Movement to Restore Indigenous Land Rights

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It demonstrated that when innovative leaders empower proximate communities, orchestrate strategic collaboration across sectors and geographies, and unlock creative capital, they dont just challenge the status quothey leap past it, catapulting systemic change forward. Their effort was not an outlier.

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5 Revenue Streams to Strengthen Nonprofit Sustainability

Ann Green

According to Double the Donations CSR guide , there are five main facets of CSR: Philanthropic , which involves a company directly supporting a nonprofit through charitable contributions, such as matching gifts Volunteerism , in which a company encourages employees to engage with nonprofits by offering grants or paid time off Environmental , in which (..)

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Advancing racial equity for effective environmental grantmaking 

Candid

As equity emerges as the lynchpin of decades of investment for generations of impact, Environmental Grantmakers Association (EGA) is clear on its role to facilitate the shift from discussion to tangible action and offers deep data to affect the course of racial equity as a relevant lens for environmental philanthropy.

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Collaboration Across Social Boundaries: A Practical Guide

Stanford Social Innovation Review

An entrepreneur hoping to market affordable solar finds it necessary to collaborate with architects, materials scientists, and roofing contractors. Simply put, social change requires social collaboration. They have also pointed us to some essential best practices for anyone setting out to collaborate across boundaries.