Selfish Giving

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

First, I've talked with some of you about the government's hold on grants and funding. Apply IDEA principles (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility) Prioritize underrepresented voices, remove participation barriers, and ensure ethical storytelling. Three things this week. Fortunately, the hold was lifted.

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Affnetz

APRIL 16, 2024

The board of directors plays a vital role in shaping the strategic and financial direction of the organization, making important decisions, and ensuring compliance with legal and ethical standards. By implementing nonprofit board management software, organizations can streamline their board processes and improve overall governance.

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Candid

JANUARY 21, 2025

We bear the responsibility to ensure AI adoption is equitable, ethical, and inclusive. AIs benefits wont be equitably distributed without intervention, governance, and responsible frameworks. Funders can invest in upskilling programs that demystify AI , educating nonprofit leaders how to use these tools ethically and effectively.

Philanthropy 52

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 9, 2024

But the group’s latest report, released this June, contained some good news for the sector: the survey found a rise in trust in nonprofits for the first time in four years—and that nonprofits remain the most trusted of various American institutions surveyed, from corporations to local and state government to the news media to the federal government.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 23, 2023

From the COVID-19 pandemic to structural racism, community-based organizations have always stepped up to fill the gaps and forge new solutions—especially where government is unable, unwilling, or ineffective. These organizations face onerous and exclusionary processes to tap into government funding sources.

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NonProfit Leadership Center

AUGUST 6, 2024

This transformational 10-week program strengthens the board governance knowledge and skills of professionals of color while equipping nonprofit organizations to be genuinely ready to welcome these new members onto their boards. Fellows report a 40% increase in their knowledge and skills after completing the program. ” Elizabeth J. .”

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Yet in that year, the World Bank’s International Development Assistance alone had pledged about a third of that amount to governments affected by fragility and conflict. Paradoxically, some of these governments contributed to the violence against their people. Those controlling the taps need to readjust the plumbing.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 16, 2024

bell hooks may have been the first theorist to popularize the concept of a love ethic. 9 Fromm then defines these four core elements in the context of love as an ethic: Care is “the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love.” 17 The practice of love as an ethic requires three things. 1956, repr.,

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 21, 2023

A 2019 report from a government study found “false positives to be between 2 and 5 times higher in women than men.” Researchers at the ACLU tested Rekognition on headshots of Congress members, which returned 28 incorrect matches.

Public and Social Policy 124

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

MARCH 12, 2024

AI Ethics in Marketing: Addressing Bias, Privacy, and Transparency Challenges in AI-Powered Campaigns In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has become an integral part of marketing strategies, revolutionizing how businesses engage with consumers.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

We looked at spending across the social impact sector; including government , global and domestic philanthropy, and S-themed ESG assets under management; and found that globally we are spending an extraordinary amount of money—roughly $72 trillion annually—making social spending the world’s largest financial market. .”

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Momentum Nonprofit Partners

MARCH 3, 2023

This year’s theme, “ All In ”, will examine how the recovery and success of the nonprofit sector is driven by the collective and effective work of the staff, board, stakeholders, clients, community, government, and corporate sector. The Ethical Fundraiser Transparency inspires confidence.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 19, 2022

At Grantli, I have created a state resources page where you can find useful links to state government departments and various other resources. The Daniels Fund focuses on supporting highly effective and ethical nonprofit organizations that achieve significant results in the community. Areas served: Vermont, US. The Eisner Foundation.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 27, 2023

While government agencies worldwide face enormous challenges in leveraging their data to deliver services effectively and efficiently, 89 percent of public sector respondents in 2020 said they were unprepared for rapid data growth. The public sector isn’t much different. Decision support.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

When the legendary physician and advocate Paul Farmer unexpectedly passed away at the age of 62 in February, he was called a hero , a visionary , and a global health giant. ” This notion extends to many other fields of leadership in business, government, and the nonprofit sectors.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

This includes AI-driven financial decisions, health-tech solutions based on incomplete data, and the use of digital surveillance against communities that already distrust law enforcement and government agencies. Nonprofits step up to defend data equity The good news is that more nonprofits are stepping up to protect data equity.

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The Agitator

JUNE 13, 2013

The national media outlet is reporting on recent inv estigations from the Tampa Bay Times and Center for Investigative Reporting, which reveal outrageous ethical breaches in our industry. Every one of us should be well versed in the essentials of ethical fundraising. He writes: We must ask questions and offer advice.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Work requirements are based on several problematic truths about the United States: an unwillingness to govern by fact rather than fiction, a deep history of racism and sexism, and a centuries-long capitalist work ethic that treats people as dispensable. They are administratively efficient.

Public and Social Policy 124

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The Racial Literacy Development Model is an action-oriented process toward eradicating one’s own racial bias with the goal of changing systems governed by racism and inequality. Design: Angel Acosta Critical Love , which focuses on fostering deep commitment and ethical responsibility toward communities. ©Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz.

Civil Society 119

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Image credit: Michael on Unsplash A popular area of applied behavioral science, nudges are frequently deployed within public health and healthcare systems to influence people’s choices. But can people be nudged into better health? Nudges are meant to be noncoercive ways of reframing choices to help people make better decisions.

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NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The development includes a four-story building of 86 family-oriented affordable housing units, as well as a space for health clinics, young adult education, and youth engagement run by social services and nonprofit organizations. Take the case of Khmer immigrants Dalis Sun and Mon Rith, who owned Grocery Plus since 2014.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Even if investing in smallholder farmers didn’t offer the enormous mitigation opportunity that it does, those of us in the West, who have predominantly driven climate change, would still have an ethical duty to help ease the challenges it creates for them and help achieve climate justice.

Philanthropy 126

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 1, 2023

.” For example, the latest Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) agreement (COP15) signed in Montreal offers a framework for utilizing digital sequence information (DSI), enabling the ethical conversion of value from the biosphere and ethnosphere for innovative solutions.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 8, 2020

My parents instilled in me a strong work ethic and a servant leader mindset from a young age. In my late 20s, after working for small and large companies and the government, I longed for a career with real purpose ? In 2013, I retreated to the private sector to save my sanity (and my health) with holes in my heart and a heavy soul. .

Finance 55

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Fundraising Coach

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Financial Health Perhaps the most straightforward area your nonprofit can gauge using Form 990 is your financial stability. Here are the main places you can look for information on your nonprofit’s financial health: Revenue streams. After all, Form 990 is at its core a document that verifies your organization’s tax exempt status.

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Nonprofit Megaphone

APRIL 7, 2023

The board of directors is responsible for the overall direction and governance of the organization, and their decisions can make or break the nonprofit’s mission. These strategies cover a wide range of topics, including board recruitment, board development, board diversity, and board governance.

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Nonprofit Marketing Blog

AUGUST 25, 2010

Financial health – Is the nonprofit sustainable? Accountability – Does the organization have ethical practices, good governance and transparency? They recently added #2 and are working on #3 with their partners: 1. Does it have robust financial strength to survive in good times and bad? Is it accountable to its constituents?

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Another project I worked on was regarding youth mental health. It can be very hard for a student to take a day off of school to find their way to a mental health clinic or to have their parents take a day off of work to take them to this appointment. Of course, is it ethical? That was one really fun example. .

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In the first half of the 20th century, the crisis of rural electrification ended when the government enabled neighbors to access loans for building their own electric co-ops. Before the Affordable Care Act, it was the only good option for health insurance. Today, such collective efforts are often stymied.

Associations 137

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 27, 2025

Companies are now often expected to actively contribute to environmental protection and uphold high ethical standards throughout their supply chains. Ethical supply chains are defined as networks of production and distribution that operate in a manner respecting environmental sustainability, human rights, and ethical labor practices.

Ethics 57

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

By James Anderson Here’s a new axiom fit for the 21st century: The greater the global challenge, the more likely it is to fall to local governments to fix. Local governments are left bearing the brunt and have, understandably, so far struggled. Or take the ongoing global migration wave.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 1, 2024

In 1990, governments around the world, with the leadership of the United States, began a 13-year effort to map human DNA through the Human Genome Project (HGP). People were afraid that employers and health insurance companies would use the data from genome mapping to discriminate, and they demanded a public policy response.

Collaborations 108

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 12, 2024

And the battle with the state over Tribal sovereignty and our rights has always been recognized by the federal government; it’s only the state government that’s not recognizing our sovereignty. So our land, our languages, our kinship systems, our governances were forced out of us.”

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NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

And then the differential impacts: how that affects women more if they’re in shelters and there’s an increase in violence, and the mental health impacts of that. We’re a society that does not think about mental health in conjunction with institutional and systemic issues very well; it tends to become very individualized and very relational.

Psychology 133

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Aimee Arent , Friends of Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Aiza Ashraf , Director of Equity & Community Impact, United Way of Lancaster County Amber Badgett , Meaningful Day Services John Badstubner , ServiceNow Dolores Bates Lorrena Black , VP Leadership Development, Inforum Samantha Butterfield , Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre Marjorie (..)

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NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 15, 2024

Unlike in Palestine, where local authorities have made it clear that it is in the best interests of Palestinian children for their care to remain in Palestine , most of these countries had no oversight to check the nature or ethics of these adoptions, much less stop them entirely.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Coined in 2004, ESG emerged as a joint effort by the UN, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), and the Swiss Government to support the financial industry’s consideration of ESG issues in mainstream investment decision-making (although its roots exist in the socially responsible movement, or SRI). Impact is both. ” 6.

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