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NonProfit Quarterly
DECEMBER 16, 2024
Without intentional, ethical oversight, the data and algorithms behind AI risk repeating patterns of exclusion, discrimination, and bias. It reaches into healthcare, finance, justice, education, and public policy, promising to streamline and elevate.
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NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
Decades of policy changes, however, often under the radar, today inhibit many diverse kinds of association. [We Public policy needs to facilitate large-scale financing for mutualist enterprises—organizations like cooperatives , employee-ownership trusts , and mutual insurance companies. This must be rectified.
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NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 27, 2025
Image Credit: anuwat Sikham on iStock In healthcare and social services, amid an aging population and an increased demand for care, there is a growing need for neutralor at least quasi-neutral honest brokers who can build trust and balance the conflicts of competing parties.
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NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
Manifesting Love by **DALL-E 3/ **openai.com/dalle Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? For those impacted by AIcommunities, workers, everyday peoplesuch policies serve as essential protective barriers.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
Last year, our social impact startup hit a milestone that eludes 96 percent of female founders: we hit one million dollars in revenue. We know that for social entrepreneurs trying to solve global challenges, the system is rigged. Underneath every accomplishment lies a profoundly broken funding landscape for social innovation.
Momentum Nonprofit Partners
MARCH 3, 2023
The Mid-South Nonprofit Conference + Catalyst Awards will offer a keynote address + 12 breakout sessions The Mid-South Nonprofit Conference returns for its 5th year and aims to address barriers, solutions, and best practices within the nonprofit sector.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
APRIL 27, 2023
Social progress, on the other hand, shows a very different picture. What explains this massive split between the corporate and the social sectors? Some refer to this as the “ data divide ”—the increasing gap between the use of data to maximize profit and the use of data to solve social problems.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
.” We have seen this cycle many times before with technologies like personal computers, mobile phones, and social media. In the social sector, many nonprofits believe AI will solve all our work problems, instantly and painlessly. Generative AI raises a host of ethical questions and complexities.
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Beth Kanter
JANUARY 9, 2023
The Chronicle of Philanthropy recently published an opinion piece, “ AI Can Help Nonprofits Reach More Donors But Fundraisers Can’t Ignore Potential Pitfalls ,” a topic that Allison Fine and I have been researching and writing about since 2017. And while the outputs may appear to be smarter than humans, they won’t replace humans.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
JULY 29, 2024
With the help of AI-powered nonprofits, like Earth Species Project and Project CETI , we now know that sperm whales have a more sophisticated, expressive, and complicated communication than previously thought. Despite this range of use cases, the number of nonprofits using AI today is limited.
Candid
OCTOBER 9, 2024
Nonprofits face a critical question: How can we make AI adoption more inclusive and accessible across our organizations? Recent studies show that two-thirds of nonprofits report using either traditional or generative AI or both, most commonly for supportive work. What would that mean? What is inclusive AI adoption?
Stanford Social Innovation Review
MARCH 29, 2023
In the realm of social change, community-based leaders are skilled at influencing and using momentum to advance local solutions but often lack all the financial resources they need to push those solutions to their full potential. In its wake, momentum for change seemed to build. What if millions of congregants followed suit?
NonProfit Quarterly
DECEMBER 21, 2023
Innovators, company founders, and other tech enthusiasts have long tried to sell the public on the idea that AI will create a path to a brighter future. An ecosystem of scientist- and scholar-led nonprofit organizations has emerged to fight bias in AI systems.
Nonprofit Fixer
AUGUST 28, 2024
Nonprofit boards are technically the most powerful entity within a nonprofit. However, too many nonprofit boards and board members don’t fully understand their core responsibilities. Despite how many nonprofit boards are struggling, board leadership and management does not have to be complicated.
Candid
APRIL 10, 2024
A recent Salesforce survey found that more than a quarter of respondents are using AI tools at work, more than half of whom are using AI that is not approved by their organizations, including in the social sector. Ethical use to reduce bias and harm Bias and harm are defined by an individual use case.
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Get Fully Funded
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
Every nonprofit has a Board of Directors. You see, it means that hundreds of people are sitting on nonprofit Boards and have NO IDEA what they said “yes” to. If your Board members and staff aren’t clear about the Board’s responsibilities, the nonprofit is set up for a big mess. And this is a problem. It’s surprising.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
But this modern reality comes with an inconvenient truth: Our public institutions are not equipped with the updated skills they need to effectively tackle the world’s ever-escalating challenges—not by a long shot. Consider the climate crisis. There’s good reason for that, as these skills are foundational to the work of a well-run city.
NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 24, 2025
Image credit: Dall-E by OpenAI Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? 4 In practice, thats proven difficulta systematic review of American healthcare data done in 2011 revealed high rates of re-identification, raising ethical concerns.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
Over the past two centuries, economists, policy makers, and researchers have aspired to “harden” social science. This is particularly important in social impact, where we need evidence to make decisions related to policy, funding, and programs, so we can solve intractable problems. million studies.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
DECEMBER 14, 2023
By Akilah Watkins The Supreme Court’s June decision on affirmative action at US colleges and universities has raised profound concerns for the nonprofit sector. Nonprofit leadership and boards are growing more diverse. While trust in nonprofits has declined, more than half of Americans still trust us to do what’s right.
Bloomerang
APRIL 7, 2022
The mission of RBC Foundation – USA is to improve the quality of life in the communities where they do business by supporting nonprofit organizations that make a positive difference and promote diversity. Areas served: US. RBC Foundation – USA. Areas served: US. Autism Speaks. See their specific funding opportunity for Toledo, Ohio.
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Candid
APRIL 11, 2024
So when I learned about Candid’s Demographics via Candid —an initiative that allows nonprofit organizations to share demographic information on their Candid nonprofit profile , where funders, donors, and researchers could easily access it—I was both intrigued and skeptical. They built a public API and released a public data set.
Bloomerang
MAY 6, 2021
As a fundraiser, I understand all of these matters impact nonprofits, and the trend is leaning—hard—toward privacy and donor data protection. . Facebook, which is the dominant social networking platform globally with 2.4 The public demands it, and because of it, governments are responding. . So, what changed?
NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 17, 2025
Image credit: Dall-E by OpenAI Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? This limited access intensifies social and economic inequalities between regions, preventing equitable progress across areas.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
If families reflect deeply in this moment on their philanthropic purpose, pace, power, and practices, and carefully choose their future path in this rapidly changing world, they will not only expand their impact but can fundamentally change the norms of our entire sector and help catalyze broader social transformation. Many already are.
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Nonprofit Tech for Good
NOVEMBER 22, 2017
Sponsored by the Public Interest Registry and researched by Nonprofit Tech for Good, the report summarizes donor data across six continents about how online and mobile technology effects giving. 2) The rise in online giving is directly correlated to the rise in social media. 15% say Twitter. 10% say Instagram. 4%), Tumblr (.4%),
Stanford Social Innovation Review
MARCH 7, 2024
We both have worked across a variety of disciplines, including teaching, ethics, economics, architecture, and design. Gender Inequity in Latin America Gender inequalities have deep and complex roots in economic, social, and political structures around the world. By Luz María Velázquez & Patricia Torres We are Lumi and Paty.
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. And are nudges, which often take the form of guided choices, aligned with the principles of ethical and equitable health practices?
The NonProfit Times
JUNE 3, 2024
In some cases, members took ethical concerns and histories of population exploitation under consideration. In the process, ethical, transparent, and community-focused processes for collection, analysis, sharing and use has become an afterthought at best, and an intentional omission at worst,” report authors continued.
NonProfit Hub
SEPTEMBER 13, 2017
After talking with the Nonprofit Hub staff, we noticed that something we haven’t spent a lot of time talking about is the importance of recruiting talent for your board, not just tokens. A nonprofit board of directors should be strategically designed to guide your nonprofit toward its mission and provide essential governance.
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Nonprofit Megaphone
APRIL 7, 2023
Nonprofit organizations, with their focus on social causes and community welfare, play a crucial role in shaping society. 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.
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 12, 2024
Image credit: Yannick Lowery / www.severepaper.com Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s fall 2023 issue, “How Do We Create Home in the Future? These are things that were purposely taken from us through colonial policies and forced assimilation—that sort of thing. CS: Thank you.
Care2
JUNE 1, 2009
frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" nonprofits in 2008. nonprofits in 2008. So I do know whereof I write.
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The NonProfit Times
OCTOBER 15, 2024
By Shaista Keating and Chloe Mankin The rapid evolution and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence technologies (AI) offer both opportunities and challenges to civil society, particularly concerning responsible and ethical usage. These frameworks guide organizations through the ethical and operational complexities of AI integration.
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iMarketSmart
MARCH 27, 2022
For nonprofit managers, numbers are important. The social-emotional content is the same. Starting with the statistical explanation reduced the social emotion.[6] 7] One system is: Social. The social-emotion system motivates charitable giving.[8] 8] Social-emotional story is the engine that drives giving.
iMarketSmart
APRIL 10, 2023
The idea is this: Suppose we ask a person to do some pro-social act. People are less likely to act pro-socially than to predict they will act pro-socially. Asking for the prediction first increases pro-social behavior. The question begins with a “social norm” statement. 33] This uses social-emotional language.
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Bloomerang
SEPTEMBER 24, 2021
You know, the end result looks really wonderful, there’s a big media blitz, social media posts, you know, everyone’s celebrating, but it doesn’t mean that there weren’t thorns along the way, difficulties along the way, or a lot of lessons learned. In our nonprofit sector, I think we use that a lot.
Blue Avocado
APRIL 1, 2025
Community Engagement is a relatively new field of study within public administration and is newly emerging as a best practice for city planning processes, research, and development of social interventions. These are examples of community engagement. Research Understanding context is vitally important.
NonProfit Quarterly
APRIL 20, 2023
Image Credit: dole777 on unsplash After more than a decade of dominating the social media landscape, Big Tech platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are in flux. Meta—the parent company of Facebook and Instagram—has been under fire in the past few years over its lax policies on news content, data privacy, and misinformation.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
At this uncertain time, as the potential use-cases of generative AI begin to become apparent, there are at least 10 things that funders can do to help the existing field of tech-related nonprofits—and society at large—better prepare. The future is now. Due this summer, it is now several months behind.
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NonProfit Quarterly
AUGUST 7, 2024
Image: “ Hiding From My Shadow” by Yvonne Coleman Burney/ www.artbyycolemanburney.com Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2024 issue, “Escaping Corporate Capture.” In short, what passes for “economic development” is too often little more than politician-abetted corporate extraction of public resources.
NonProfit Quarterly
APRIL 27, 2023
Nonprofits play a critical role in organizing communities and advocating for better policies to face these crises, and we must now assess what we are looking for in our colleagues and ourselves. We’ve noticed this trend at all age levels as workers collectively argue, “Good boundaries do not mean I lack a work ethic—I work my ass off.”
iMarketSmart
JANUARY 30, 2023
Start social then follow up. Start social then follow up Starting with simple, social language often works best. Social, emotional language encourages sharing. 11] Social phrasing also tends to elicit more information.[12] 11] Social phrasing also tends to elicit more information.[12] These show we care.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
MARCH 13, 2024
Today, nonprofit fundraising and especially large capital campaigns emphasize naming opportunities to attract seven-, eight-, and nine-figure donations from high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs). Less than one percent of major gifts are offered anonymously , not surprisingly, as fundraisers encourage public acts of charity.
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