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Elevate Conference 2025: Take Your Nonprofit Off Autopilot

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Three Content Tracks At Elevate, you’ll have access to three targeted tracks designed to address the most pressing challenges facing the nonprofit sector: Advocacy and Public Policy: Amplify Your Nonprofit’s Voice Nonprofits are at the forefront of societal change. Build coalitions that strengthen your mission.

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AI and Racial Justice: Navigating the Dual Impact on Marginalized Communities

NonProfit Quarterly

It reaches into healthcare, finance, justice, education, and public policy, promising to streamline and elevate. Take facial recognition technology , for instance. Developed using data that rarely represent humans full diversity, this technology struggles to accurately identify Black and Brown faces.

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From Impact Investing to “Impact-First” Investing—What Is the Field Learning?

NonProfit Quarterly

The report notes that in their design, the funds vary greatly in terms of asset classes (small business, growth enterprises, real estate); sectors (agriculture, reproductive health, affordable housing, technology); and the size of individual investments (from a few thousand dollars each, to $1 million or more for a single real estate project) (16).

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Encouraging Human Creativity in the AI-Powered Future

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Thats why, in public policy circles, we must nurture and reward innovation in as well as from AI. As has been the case with technological progress generally since the founding of the United States, that means protecting all aspects of creative human work now manifesting itself through AI.

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How the Facing Race Conference Is Meeting the Political Moment: A Conversation with Leslie Grant-Spann

NonProfit Quarterly

It’s broad in the sense that it brings racial justice practitioners, artists, movement makers, educators from all over the movement who are working at the intersections of race, class, education, the environment, reproductive health, and rights, et cetera. RB: How have you seen the Facing Race conference evolve since it first started?

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Why Funders Should Go Meta

Stanford Social Innovation Review

That would certainly help those people financially, and perhaps in terms of their health as well. The median new cancer drug improves lifespan by only around two months, so good health outcomes are by no means guaranteed.). On the other hand, you could invest in innovative cancer research. Or consider clinical trials in medicine.

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The Ghost Workforce the Tech Industry Doesn’t Want You to Think About

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Facebook and their outsourcing companies like Samasource, now Sama, refuse to provide proper, meaningful psychiatric care resulting in serious, long-term mental health illnesses for many of these workers. There’s good old-fashioned health and safety violations too. Daniel and his colleagues worked in dangerous conditions.