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AI and Racial Justice: Navigating the Dual Impact on Marginalized Communities

NonProfit Quarterly

This isnt just a denial of financial services; its a denial of possibility, locking communities into cycles of poverty and keeping doors closed to upward mobility. Imagine entire neighborhoods, once redlined and systematically denied opportunity, now being neglected again by algorithms that equate zip codes with financial risk.

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Commentary: An Opportunity To Reform

The NonProfit Times

Increased collaboration and innovative infrastructure solutions are creating the conditions for transformation. The contribution of GivingTuesday Data Commons has made to increasing sector collaboration and improving the enabling environment for nonprofits has been significant. The technology exists.

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Learning That Changes Lives: Local Leader Shares Journey to Nonprofit Success

NonProfit Leadership Center

Collaborative. I was assigned to Starting Right Now for my project,” Erin says, “which is an organization that exists to solve generational poverty by ending homelessness for students. Erin believes the collaborative nature of the program and working in groups like one would in the real world is what stood out to her most.

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Executive Director

Anedot

Position Responsibilities: Reporting to and collaborating with the Board of Directors, key responsibilities are: 1.Leadership Collaborate with Board to develop and execute strategy to advance our mission and expand our impact. We do it with no charge to the residents or referring social service agency. Leadership & Management: a.

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Building Narrative Power for Economic Justice by Telling Better Stories

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Etienne Girardet on unsplash.com Many people working in nonprofits and philanthropy say they want to reduce poverty, and increasingly, foundations, nonprofits, and social-movement organizations are developing communications strategies and telling stories that aim to dispel the myth that the US economic system is equitable and fair.

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The Economic Case against Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

This series— Ending Work Requirements — based on a report by the Maven Collaborative, the Center for Social Policy, and Ife Finch Floyd, will explore the truth behind work requirements. Instead, they harm people who need the support of public benefits programs, increase poverty, and have negative macroeconomic impacts.

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Philanthropic collaboratives are finding ways to more effectively measure impact

Candid

In the United States, philanthropic collaboratives—entities that either pool or channel resources from multiple donors to nonprofits— collectively directed between $2 billion and $3 billion to a variety of grantees in 2021, and our research indicates that figure has grown since then.