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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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What megadonors miss about health-focused nonprofits 

Candid

More recently, MacKenzie Scott gave Allyson Felix $20 million in support of her efforts to improve Black maternal health. Opportunities for helping established health-focused nonprofits scale To continue their work, innovate, and scale proven solutions, these nonprofits require sustainable and flexible funding.

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The Double-Edged Sword of Health Innovations: Navigating the Intersection of Technology and Equity in Nigeria

NonProfit Quarterly

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? However, health innovation, when narrowly defined as the application of technologies, often overlooks the broader socioeconomic contexts in which it is deployed.

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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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From Gig Work to Good Work: How Workforce Policy Can Support Gig Workers

NonProfit Quarterly

While governments, foundations, educators, and unions typically focus on job placements as key to improving people’s economic stability, they often overlook individuals who cannot commit to traditional employment schedules. Nonstandard work is shaped by powerful new technologies, though we have little information about how they are applied.

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Making Health Innovations Thrive in Africa

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Christian Seelos , Miki Sofer , Caitlin Burton & Johanna Mair According to the United States Mission to the African Union, the US alone has invested more than $100 billion in African health over the last 20 years. We see several strategies that could help overcome these barriers to executing and scaling effective health solutions.

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“Forever Chemicals” Are Endangering Our Collective Health

NonProfit Quarterly

According to the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences , “PFAS are a group of nearly 15,000 synthetic chemicals.” However, the National Institute of Standards and Technology acknowledges that “scientists can only reliably identify the chemical structures of a few hundred of them.” According to Erik D.

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