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

NonProfit Quarterly

I’ve been doing social justice work for over 20 years now. When the organization first started convening people, the vehicle was a race and policy gathering that we did all over the country. Before that, it didn’t have a specific name or brand, but we had already begun to convene people, with the framework being race and policy.

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Strengthening communities by supporting the nonprofit workforce 

Candid

We nonprofit workers focus our attention on families who have trouble affording safe housing, enough food, quality child care and health care, reliable transportation, and technology. For many nonprofit workers—especially those who work in social assistance, the arts, or the religious sector—wages just can’t keep up with rising costs.