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Honest Brokers, Technology, and Health Justice: What Are We Learning?

NonProfit Quarterly

But the sector needs a more compelling, ethical model for a brokerage that uses decentralized governance, transparency, and inclusivity. The honest broker collects and provides aggregate health data to investigators while protecting individual identities and privacy. Theyre usually not part of the organizational team.

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Leaders Say Public Health Ethics Is Necessary for Social Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

How does the field of public health—given its role in making decisions that impact entire populations—define ethics? How can it be used to advance health equity and social justice? Ethical values are critical to all that we do,” says Dr. Nancy Krieger , a professor of social epidemiology at Harvard T.H.

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Univ. of Illinois Lands $50 Million From Tech Billionaire Tom Siebel

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Plus, private equity titan Michael Kim gives Haverford College $25 million for an ethics institute, and Riley Children’s Foundation lands $8 million to address the youth mental health crisis. The gift launches the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science.

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Tips for using AI technology to do good—safely and ethically 

Candid

As generative AI tools like ChatGPT become increasingly widely available, the need to ensure they’re used safely and ethically also becomes ever more urgent. These articles explore the ethical considerations AI technology raises for the sector and ways to address them. Here are some articles to help you get started.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Without intentional, ethical oversight, the data and algorithms behind AI risk repeating patterns of exclusion, discrimination, and bias. Without intentional, ethical oversight, the data and algorithms behind AI risk repeating patterns of exclusion, discrimination, and bias.

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Gather, Share, Build

Stanford Social Innovation Review

While some tech-for-good companies are creating AI and thrivingDigital Green, Khan Academy, and Jacaranda Health, among manymost social sector companies are not ready to build AI solutions. When Nexleaf started in 2009, its co-founders aspired to bring the value of consistent sensor data to low-resource health systems.

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Sector Adopting AI, Building Reserves, and Expanding, Survey Shows

NonProfit Quarterly

Based on a survey of 250 nonprofits, including foundations, international NGOs, public charities, higher education institutions, and health and human services organizations, the report states that 44 percent of nonprofits surveyed said they use the technology for forecasting, budgeting, and payment automation.