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Minding the Gaps: Neuroethics, AI, and Depression

NonProfit Quarterly

1 AI promises to help scientists leverage massive datasets and brain simulations to test new diagnoses and treatments at scalewithout the need for risky or costly human participation. percent of Black Americans live below the poverty line (the number is 7.7 percent of Black Americans live below the poverty line (the number is 7.7

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Building Youth Power

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This experience motivated Kahlila to become a youth organizer, helping to establish new Students Deserve chapters across Los Angeles County and to join a campaign to defund the Los Angeles School Police Department (LASPD). As a sophomore, Kahlila collapsed from dehydration at a school event.

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Zero-Problem Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Having opportunities to play and laugh is as essential as being able to participate in political and religious life, own property, and engage in work. Proponents of this positive psychology movement argue that poor people should not be “completely defined by their poverty, nor can they be fully understood in its terms alone.”

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How to Make the Ask of a Gift in a Will Less Scary

iMarketSmart

It provides motivation. We’ll be announcing our board participation at the banquet. The motivation isn’t about death. 52] It tested 24 bequest gift descriptions among nearly 10,000 participants. [12] Phrasing = Preface + Ask Academic theory is fine, but how do we actually do this? What do we say? Otherwise, it wasn’t.

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Movements Are Leading the Way: Reenvisioning and Redesigning Laws and Governance for a Just Energy Utility Transition

NonProfit Quarterly

13 Below, I summarize some of the beliefs and assumptions motivating movement action, many of which act as an alternative to common utility myths and interventions at play today. Examples here only scratch the surface of the plurality of work happening across the country. In cooperative models, financial benefits are shared.

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Africa, Colonialism, and the Paradox of International Aid

NonProfit Quarterly

Equity co-investments, where public entities accept lower rates of return to encourage private sector participation. Adopting inclusive institutions that promote broad participation ensures that power is distributed widely. Subordinated debt, where public lenders agree to be repaid after private lenders.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

Are poverty wages less miserable because your boss is Black? According to the Economic Policy Institute, in the 1950s and 1960s, more than 1 percent of workers participated in a union election each year. 41 Mutualism harnesses the human tendency to collaborate, share, and construct institutions that last. 52 Indeed, it is.