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The United Nations’ Innovation Learning Journey

Stanford Social Innovation Review

And we must harness the opportunities brought by digital technologies. For example, when her organization first started experimenting with emerging technology, one innovation unit member at the World Bank (WB) recalls that “the greatest challenge was the lack of knowledge around tech.” ” Why?

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Activating Loving-Awareness

NonProfit Quarterly

This article was adapted from “Activating Loving Awareness through Contemplative Technology” by Sará King, published in Can AI Heal Us? , Image credit: “I Will be the World” by Martine Mooijenkind Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s winter 2023 issue, “Love as Social Order: How Do We Build a World Based in Love?”

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What Does It Mean to Dismantle Racial Capitalism Anyway?

NonProfit Quarterly

Robinson, a professor of political science and Black studies. 7 This means that in 2020, the year of the so-called racial reckoning, “one of the largest financial [government] bailouts since the Great Depression” actually served to further the racial wealth gap. It’s a strategic choice made by a set of actors.”

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Trust Is The Best Currency: CEO, Founder Stamps Approval on Products for Parents

Fundraising Leadership

shopsmarter ” In her early years of entrepreneurship after graduating from York University in 1994 with a double degree in mass communications and political science, Vinderine, who stands just under 5 feet tall, says she endured not only gender bias, but height bias when connecting with funders and clients in person. “As

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[VIDEO] The Board’s Role in Fundraising & Resource Development

Bloomerang

And so, again, I am Sabrina Walker Hernandez, and I studied political science and public administration and I obtained a nonprofit management certification from Harvard Business School and for the last 25 years, I’ve worked in a nonprofit industry. And ask the kids not to kill themselves or each other for the next hour or so.

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A Planet to Win—Where Do We Start?

NonProfit Quarterly

2 Governments, corporations, and individuals are not actors with equal amounts of influence. The problems of climate politics become more complicated, however, when they expand to the planetary scale. Anyone opposing him politically must thus articulate an anti-extraction stance, which is not a difficult standard to meet.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

This was seen as a politically smart means to avert White backlash. A 1996 political science journal article, for example, argued that policies were most likely to be effective in addressing race and economic inequality if they were targeted to benefit Black Americans but “advanced and defended on universalistic grounds.”