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Honest Brokers, Technology, and Health Justice: What Are We Learning?

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: anuwat Sikham on iStock In healthcare and social services, amid an aging population and an increased demand for care, there is a growing need for neutralor at least quasi-neutral honest brokers who can build trust and balance the conflicts of competing parties. Theyre usually not part of the organizational team.

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Elevate Conference 2025: Take Your Nonprofit Off Autopilot

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

The world is changing, and the social sector must lead the charge. This track will help you: Influence public policy and make your voice heard. This track will teach you how to: Leverage technology and engagement strategies for greater impact. Build coalitions that strengthen your mission.

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Can Labor Save Higher Education as a Public Good?

NonProfit Quarterly

HELU first went public in 2021 with a vision platform that was quickly endorsed by over 140 local unions and allied organizations, including many labor-aligned nonprofits like the Debt Collective , Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Education , and Jobs With Justice. This simple organizing slogan caught on.

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The Stories We Tell About AI

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Alex Ash Narratives are an essential prerequisite to social change. However, for many industries, the stories being told about AI, work, and livelihoods serve to increase technology companies' power at the expense of workers' rights. For example, a headline from Tech Policy Press reads Why Hasty AI Regulation Could Hurt Africa.

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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. Nonprofit leaders dedicated to social justice know that AIs power to shape lives will further entrench the biases weve fought for generations to dismantle if left unchallenged.

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Parents Are in Crisis: A Developmental Framework Can Offer Support

NonProfit Quarterly

On August 28, 2024, the United States Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy declared parental stress a public health crisis. It is contingent on a social environment, which has the power to either help or hinder a persons developmental trajectory. An overhaul of the reproductive healthcare and family welfare policies are long overdue.

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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.