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.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

It has moved past stage one, “innovation trigger,” wherein the technology shows up everywhere all at once, and is now at its “peak of inflated expectations.” ” We have seen this cycle many times before with technologies like personal computers, mobile phones, and social media. It won’t.)

Ethics 139

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Beth Kanter

JANUARY 9, 2023

When we first started publishing and presenting on Smart Tech and AI tools to audiences of fundraisers, nonprofits, and funders in the social sector field, the media narrative around AI was presented as binary. It should not lead to replacing people or their jobs with the technology because to be effective these tools require human oversight.

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Candid

OCTOBER 9, 2024

To enhance organizational effectiveness and advance mission-driven goals using this technology, however, nonprofits need to ensure inclusive AI adoption. Develop an AI policy The first step is to create a policy that guides, rather than restricts, AI use. What would that mean? What is inclusive AI adoption?

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 29, 2024

Fast Forward’s research of how APNs are using AI to fight climate change found a vast range of use cases, including decarbonizing supply chains, tracking pollution, predicting disasters, optimizing sustainable farming practices, protecting biodiversity, and equipping policy makers with better data.

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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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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

Technology Goes Mainstream. Facebook, which is the dominant social networking platform globally with 2.4 During the decades of the 1980s and 1990s that technology began to integrate into people’s lives. The public demands it, and because of it, governments are responding. . billion users, was only founded in 2004.

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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.

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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. 57% of religious giving in Asia is online.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 22, 2024

By Natalia Kucirkova Educational technology, or ed-tech, shares some crucial similarities with fintech. Indeed, the lack of public leadership and financial incentives has positioned investors as not only economic but also political actors whose investment priorities speak to quality questions of the entire ed-tech ecosystem.

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Pam Moore

MARCH 19, 2020

Even if they aren't experts on everything they would like to be, they will take risks, embrace new technologies, and continually use data to optimize results. Listen to episode 267 of the Social Zoom Factor podcast for more details on each of the below 15 digital marketing and branding trends. Brands Get More Human.

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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!" 6) Social networking is fun – no doubt about it. Will social networking evolve?

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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. Of course, is it ethical? Who are the players?

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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.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 1, 2024

But by “weaponizing” this technology, we’ve made it much harder to regulate, as it has undoubtedly led to policies aimed at stockpiling resources to achieve national supremacy over the tech. In fact, many of the ideas around what AI can achieve has been influenced by the notion that it’s as powerful as a nuclear weapon.

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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.

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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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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. Foundational efforts in these areas are underway. UNICEF has developed guidelines for AI use.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 13, 2024

Naming gifts provide donors with reputational and market value , what legal scholar William Drennan refers to as “ publicity rights ,” and beneficiary organizations and their constituents with financial and mission-driven value. Ethical egoism posits that fulfilling one’s duty to act out of self-interest is the highest moral calling.

Ethics 122

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

During the COVID-19 pandemic, health justice advocacy groups adapted their strategies to the digital realm, leveraging social media platforms, virtual events, and other online resources to raise awareness and organize their efforts.1 Telemedicine, for example, powered by digital platforms, is a transformative force in improving access.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 5, 2024

Deepak Bhargava: My motivation for taking the job is believing that we are at a pivotal point in the country’s history and that many of the gains that social movements have won over many decades are in jeopardy. That is the strategy for social change that philanthropy should get behind. What made you want to come to JPB?

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Others, like the Ford, MacArthur, and Hewlett Foundations, and Omidyar Network, have focused on building the capacity to address the risks and opportunities posed by a wide range of technologies, including, but not limited to, artificial intelligence. The future is now. Due this summer, it is now several months behind.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 16, 2025

Image Credit: Photo by Werner Pfennig on Pexels When former Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab Director Joi Ito met Jeffrey Epstein at a conference in 2013, it would lead to lab funding and investments in Itos funds powering startups. This crisis posed a serious threat to MIT and required a multipronged approach.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 4, 2024

But putting unchecked development in the hands of (primarily) male tech executives who espouse a particular Silicon Valley ethos oriented toward profit and dominance above all else, will only intensify threats to our social systems and vulnerable communities. We need a new roadmap.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 26, 2023

As policy makers struggle to respond to the unfolding human catastrophe, they have increasingly turned to the possibilities offered by technology, and data in particular. Yet as is so often the case with technology, the potential for good is accompanied by certain risks. What Is a Social License?

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

JANUARY 20, 2024

Here’s how AI Text to Image Generators Work [Video Tutorial] In this article AI text-to-image generators are a type of artificial intelligence technology that can create visual images from textual descriptions. Let’s say we want to create an image for an article or social post about marketing or tech.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 12, 2023

By SSIR Editors The way we work is changing rapidly and is impacted daily by technological advances. If designed and harnessed responsibly, technology can help us reimagine how we work, where we work, and what work we do. However, when designed poorly, tech can harm workers and exacerbate inequalities. by Chana R.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 5, 2023

Image Credit: dimitrisvetsikas1969 on pixabay.com The world changes too much for anyone who is invested in social change work to imagine that this work is linear and predictable. This much most social movement leaders and activists intuitively understand. They often struggled to get public attention on Congressional corruption.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

“RULER OF THE EARTH” BY YUET-LAM TSANG Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” How do social movements come to make the language of economic systems change their own? We think it can. We think it can.

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NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 31, 2024

There are multiple reasons for this silence—including fear of being labeled anti-Semitic for expressing public support for the people of Gaza—but there is another less acknowledged reason. Rogers is a board member of defense technology company RTX , and sits on the board of Harvard Management Company, which oversees the school’s $50.7

Education 144

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NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Johanna Bozuwa, the executive director of the Climate and Community Project, details how the corporate capture of climate policy has impeded the public’s ability to respond effectively to the climate crisis. 5 Tenants are confronting [corporate] capture by organizing toward a world in which housing is guaranteed as a public good.

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Fundraising Leadership

MARCH 22, 2024

Using social media to promote your work can be positive, but you need to be careful. due to its Chinese ownership and use of data from its 170 million users, it is prime time to take a look at your own social media use. Contentious political and cultural issues are off limits from public sharing. Some posts can get you fired.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 10, 2025

In todays rapidly evolving landscape, digital health innovations, driven by advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence and robotics, are reshaping clinical research in some promising ways. Data controls involve technical measures like encryption and organizational policies to protect data integrity and security.

Health 70

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