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The Role of AI Agents in Addressing Global Challenges of Social Enterprises

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

As the complexity of global issues like climate change, poverty, and inequality continues to escalate, AI agents are emerging as transformative tools. AI-driven solutions for sustainability also help enterprises optimize energy usage, manage waste, and reduce carbon footprints.

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Nothing About Us Without Us: Invest in Disabled Leaders to Advance Equitable Technology for Everyone

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Ibrahim Hafeez on pexels.com To solve our most pressing challenges, we need the total sum of human intelligence and emancipatory energy in our society. People with disabilities are leading policy change, technology development, and workplace evolution. But space needs to be made. Hands need to reach out.

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Building Supply Chains Where Smallholder Farmers Thrive

Stanford Social Innovation Review

As the United Nations highlights, eradicating poverty is the greatest global challenge and an absolute requirement for sustainable development. To achieve this, more businesses need to join with the government and civil society to actively confront inequality, poverty, and climate change together. A Tyranny of Tradeoffs. Earning $1.30

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Multisolving: Making Systems Whole, Healthy, and Sustainable

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Take the way that energy and health are often treated as separate issues. They are typically studied by different researchers, and policy choices on energy and health are usually made in isolation from each other. Yet, in a 2021 survey , WHO found that only 1 in 5 countries bring health considerations into climate and energy policy.

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Your New Nonprofit Marketing Job: Friday Futures

Getting Attention

Communications and Technology Manager , Association of Small Foundations (Washington DC). Public Affairs Manager , Southern Poverty Law Center (Montgomery, AL). Vice President of Communications , Solar Energy Industries Association (Washington DC). New Opportunities. Arts Program Associate , Knight Foundation (Miami, FL).

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Pollution Has a Class Problem in Thailand and Beyond

NonProfit Quarterly

The Risk of Lower-Income Work “The lower you are in [an] income group, your exposure increases,” said Sunil Dahiya, an analyst at the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air , explaining that oftentimes people with lower incomes work outdoors, which increases their risk. But even higher-income nations can’t escape the smog.

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Making the Affordable Aspirational: Increasing the Adoption of Frugal Innovations at the Base of the Pyramid

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Frugal innovation—the use of ubiquitous technologies to innovate faster, better, and cheaper—offers entrepreneurs, large companies, and nonprofits an approach to addressing the needs of the BoP by designing highly affordable solutions that are different from the mainstream alternatives available in typical market segments.