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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

The evolution includes not only thinking about policy as a way to move the needle on racial justice here in the US but also looking at how people are contributing to racial justice movement making through art, culture, narrative development, communications, cultural organizing, innovation, and technology. Louis and Ferguson.

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Blockchain Technology: What Is It and How Is It Relevant for Nonprofits?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Paul Lamb , Principal at Man On A Mission Consulting , has over 25 years of experience in business, nonprofit management, technology, and public policy. At its core blockchain is a database technology. Overall blockchain is still very much a nascent technology. Blockchain Simplified.

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What’s Essential? Author, CEO, Founder on What Leaders Need To Do Now

Fundraising Leadership

founder and CEO of The Humanity Studio, and co-author with Kelly Monahan of Essential: How Distributed Teams, Generative AI and Global Shifts Arte Creating A New Human-Powered Leadership, Technology is outpacing leader capabilities. The book is a blueprint for how to lead in this complex world fueled by technology. Of this, $6.6