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

NonProfit Quarterly

Emerging technological innovations in healthcare have the potential to transform public health and healthcare delivery systems, making them more efficient, personalized, and accessible. Emerging Technologies: Potential and Risks Technological innovations are often lauded as a panacea for global health challenges.

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Commentary: The Full Potential Of The Social Sector  

The NonProfit Times

What if those funders stipulated that they could not spend a penny covering their overhead costs or investing in technology or talent? 22% of those workers are living below or just above the poverty line. As the report’s authors noted: “Many of the lowest-paid nonprofit employees are human services workers.

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Nothing About Us Without Us: Invest in Disabled Leaders to Advance Equitable Technology for Everyone

NonProfit Quarterly

People with disabilities are leading policy change, technology development, and workplace evolution. The newly launched Disability x Tech Fund , which focuses on technology justice, offers a framework for how we can collectively resource these leaders. But space needs to be made. Hands need to reach out. People need to be lifted up.”

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Minding the Gaps: Neuroethics, AI, and Depression

NonProfit Quarterly

Which path wins out will depend on the datasets and designs of the emerging technologies as well as whether or not robust regulations are put in place to guide the scientists at the helm. percent of Black Americans live below the poverty line (the number is 7.7 10 Only 35.1 19 Scientific racism is still rife in the United States.

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Building Supply Chains Where Smallholder Farmers Thrive

Stanford Social Innovation Review

As the United Nations highlights, eradicating poverty is the greatest global challenge and an absolute requirement for sustainable development. To achieve this, more businesses need to join with the government and civil society to actively confront inequality, poverty, and climate change together. A Tyranny of Tradeoffs.

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What do you believe are the most critical areas for improvement to achieve your mission?

Blue Avocado

Because we choose not to be under the government’s thumb by acquiescing to the 501(c)(3) status game, we are generally not permitted to apply for grant funding. We cannot achieve our mission of sustainability and creating opportunities to pull themselves from abject poverty. Help us help the world.

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Commentary: An Opportunity To Reform

The NonProfit Times

By Woodrow Rosebaum Tech for nonprofits has been overlooked for decades, lagging while governments and businesses found ways to streamline, coordinate and scale. The technology exists. We cant continue to pour time and money into workarounds and stopgap measures for faulty technology and bad data.