3 Lessons Your Nonprofit Must Know About Emerging Innovations
NonProfit PRO
DECEMBER 5, 2023
As artificial intelligence takes the world by storm, here are three lessons for nonprofits on AI and other innovations.
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NonProfit PRO
DECEMBER 5, 2023
As artificial intelligence takes the world by storm, here are three lessons for nonprofits on AI and other innovations.
Pam Moore
APRIL 7, 2024
Cultivating Innovation: 9 Tactics for Getting Your Team to Hug AI and Innovation Are you ready to infuse some innovation into your team's DNA and hug AI and innovation like never before? But here's the catch: the journey to innovation isn't a solo endeavor. Communicate the Why: Paint a vivid picture of your vision.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
JANUARY 25, 2024
By Jim Fruchterman What the social innovation community needs to understand about Silicon Valley’s current hype cycle.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
JULY 5, 2023
Ambos “Without innovation, we cannot meet the challenges of our time. […] We must learn not only new things, but how to learn. Innovation across the United Nations system is essential for us to deliver at the scale and pace needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.”—UN
Stanford Social Innovation Review
MARCH 7, 2024
The result was the creation of All Women Coo , with the slogan “Gafas Moradas para Innovar” (“Purple Glasses to Innovate”), a Mexican boutique consultancy born during the COVID-19 pandemic to mitigate its negative effects on women. Innovation thus becomes a powerful tool driven by the intellectual participation of women from diverse contexts.
NonProfit Quarterly
JUNE 28, 2023
I hold this question in my heart every day as I reflect on our current economic conditions and strategize about building a reimagined economy rooted in equity, justice, and liberation. To be serious about closing the racial wealth gap and building an economy that loves Black people, we need to focus our attention on the US South.
Nonprofit Fixer
APRIL 22, 2024
As social innovators we’ve got to be tenacious, gritty and courageous. Change allows us to innovate and adjust, and no matter how scary it is, it is needed.” - Patrick Riccards, Driving Force Institute “For innovative leaders, we fail more than most see. It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress.
Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls
APRIL 26, 2024
Look for evidence of innovative designs, impeccable execution, and positive client experiences. Inquire about the sourcing practices, manufacturing processes, and transportation methods employed by the packaging company.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
Asylum seekers to New York City have, in the past year alone, more than doubled the city’s shelter population—from 50,000 to more than 100,000—which has both necessitated an extraordinary and expensive peacetime mobilization and raised questions about cities’ and regions’ capacities to effectively respond.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
AUGUST 1, 2023
” While commercial innovations can be classified as products, processes, or business models, biocultural innovation blurs the lines between extractive notions of innovation and biocultural approaches to conservation. .”
Stanford Social Innovation Review
MARCH 23, 2023
Solutions of grand design regularly disappoint, however, because of their high costs, the challenges of translating big plans to local needs, and ongoing disagreement and polarization about what works and what is detrimental. ” Scaling up social innovation takes time, but there are also varying ways it can be done.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
DECEMBER 26, 2023
How to Tell Real Stories About Impact by Annie Neimand “Storytelling is the most powerful tool we have for helping people understand the work we do, particularly from people who are closest to injustice and inequality.” Brett Davidson suggests a “concentric circle” model for thinking about and measuring narrative change.
Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls
APRIL 24, 2024
Failure to prioritise diversity and inclusion not only limits your talent pool but also hinders innovation and creativity within your organisation. By embracing innovation in your hiring process, you’ll increase your chances of finding the best-fit candidates for your team.
NonProfit PRO
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
The rapid growth of AI brings promising new innovation, and at the same time raises new challenges. Learn more about building AI responsibly at AWS! At the core of our commitment is our customers, and for the nonprofit sector, the constituents they serve.
Fundraising Leadership
MARCH 15, 2024
The females attribute that lack of learning about STEM fields in middle school and high school. Fifty-four percent of males report learning in school about computer programming/coding—skills that underlie roles in fields as diverse as technology, manufacturing and cybersecurity—compared with 39% of females.” #inclusivity In the U.S.,
Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Innovate and Integrate: The Dynamic Impact of MSP Software on Operations In an era where technology is not an enabler but a driver of business success, understanding the dynamic impact of Managed Service Provider (MSP) software on operations is crucial. The global digital transformation market, which is expected to reach a staggering $4.6
NonProfit PRO
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
StratusLIVE empowers nonprofits through innovative technology, passionately advancing missions against challenges, like hunger. Learn more about StratusLIVE’s recent success with the Food Depository and how they seek to drive digital maturity.
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 10, 2024
CRH’s journey serves as a poignant reminder and rallying cry: purpose-driven entities, with the right partnerships and a touch of innovation, can navigate the most daunting financial mazes—even if they shouldn’t have to. In Kate Poole’s words, “We are trying to shift how people think about risk. Winning the Lottery?
Candid
MARCH 6, 2024
As we streamline Candid’s operations, we continue to think long and hard about our priorities and how to maximize our impact bang for donor buck. Multi-year, unrestricted funding gives grantees the flexibility to assess and determine where grant dollars are most needed, and allows for innovation, emergent action, and sustainability.”
NonProfit PRO
JUNE 13, 2023
Heather Hooper, executive director at the Dementia Alliance of North Carolina, will be presenting “Breaking Through Resistance: Strategies for Successfully Implementing Technology Innovation in Nonprofits” at this year’s inaugural BridgeTECH.
NonProfit PRO
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
StratusLIVE empowers nonprofits through innovative technology, passionately advancing missions against challenges, like hunger. Learn more about StratusLIVE’s recent success with the Food Depository and how they seek to drive digital maturity.
Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls
MARCH 10, 2024
Chapters How an AI Video Idea Generator Works [Video Tutorial] What is an AI Video Idea Generator An AI Video Idea Generator is like a creative brainstorming partner, powered by artificial intelligence, designed to spark innovative and engaging video content ideas.
NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 28, 2024
The book was published by the de Beaumont Foundation in partnership with the Maternal Health Learning & Innovation Center and Oxford University Press. I’ve worked as a local health director and worked at the state health department for about 17 years. It took about four years, maybe a little bit less, to get it published.
iMarketSmart
APRIL 26, 2024
Jim Langley is the president of Langley Innovations. With each passing year they are more likely to give generously within their means and/or steadily lay in store a much greater contribution that will be realized at their life’s end. We’ve lost complete sight of the ratio of sowing to reaping.
Bloomerang
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
The Sound of Science: A Tinnitus Biobank Read on to find out more about these innovative examples of nonprofit marketing campaigns. UK-based breast cancer awareness charities, have consistently used innovative marketing techniques to educate and empower people about the importance of early breast cancer detection.
NonProfit PRO
OCTOBER 19, 2023
What do marketing and fundraising leaders need to know about the cloud? Take this 5min online assessment to assess your organization’s cloud maturity and find out if you’re embracing and embarking, launching and learning or innovating and accelerating to drive your mission forward! Simply put, a lot!
NonProfit PRO
OCTOBER 3, 2023
Whether you’re in marketing, fundraising, or IT, we invite you to get to know more about how Bedrock can help you advance mission impact and innovation. AWS is excited to announce Amazon Bedrock, the easiest way to build generative AI applications with security and privacy built in.
NonProfit Leadership Center
MARCH 8, 2024
Visionary, strategic thinker When asked about the essential qualities that good leaders possess, nonprofit CEOs and funders most frequently cited the ability to create a clear and compelling vision and rally staff and volunteers around a common purpose as the most important. Knowledgeable about the business and how to run it.”
Stanford Social Innovation Review
MARCH 18, 2024
Many of these jobs are ripe for innovation, and responsible AI technology could bring more good than harm in assisting parts of our workforce that are stretched to the breaking point. Looking Forward AI and technological innovation alone will not solve the labor crisis in the care economy.
iMarketSmart
MARCH 22, 2024
You are coming back to test a potential alignment with what they care most about and what your organization can do well and wants to do better (either through improved service and/or to provide that service to more people). Jim Langley is the president of Langley Innovations.
iMarketSmart
APRIL 12, 2024
If something about fundraising makes you uncomfortable, it isn’t because there’s something wrong with you but because there’s something wrong with the way you’re fundraising, or being expected to. Of course, fundraising is not about you personally but the cause you represent. And so it should be.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
DECEMBER 23, 2023
These innovative tools are revolutionising tasks by saving hundreds of hours of manual work through aiding in campaign creation, categorising and drafting email responses, assisting with content creation, and even automating donation processes to personalise and enhance the donor experience.
Philanthropy 2173
OCTOBER 25, 2023
During the course of the hour, I got asked about AI and philanthropy. The Blueprint 2024 (coming on December 15, 2023) has much to say about this. But during the panel I realized something I've thought about for years, but don't think I've said before. No one invested in giving innovation wants to hear that.
Candid
AUGUST 26, 2021
Ann Mei is a leading expert on social innovation with global experience in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. The author of Lean Impact: How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good , Ann Mei served as chief innovation officer at the U.S. Smith through the end of the year to ensure a smooth transition.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
JANUARY 5, 2023
billion (about $1 billion) in 2020, while government spending was SGD 36.6 billion (about $26 billion)—26 times the amount. This ratio is similar in most other countries; for every year that government funds social impact, philanthropic money would last only about two weeks. How a Variation on Pay for Success Can Help.
Bloomerang
JUNE 6, 2023
Bloomerang’s innovative volunteer profile integration surfaces your most valuable constituents: super supporters. This innovative approach gives you a new way to find and engage new donors and create predictable revenue streams. Already a Bloomerang customer but want to learn more about volunteer management? Contact us.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
Frugal innovation—the use of ubiquitous technologies to innovate faster, better, and cheaper—offers entrepreneurs, large companies, and nonprofits an approach to addressing the needs of the BoP by designing highly affordable solutions that are different from the mainstream alternatives available in typical market segments.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
DECEMBER 21, 2022
A common theme among this year’s most popular stories on SSIR.org is the notion of building on or refining existing social innovations. We hope these articles, as well as several on strengthening leadership in the social sector, inform and inspire you as we look forward to the social innovations of 2023. By SSIR Editors.
Candid
MAY 24, 2023
The story you are about to hear is true. This is just a moment to celebrate and spotlight the power of nonprofit leadership and to offer what is quite a compelling argument for innovation. Perhaps you find yourself laughing thinking about older adults and technology—not often, a “perfect match.” No names are changed.
Candid
MAY 24, 2023
The story you are about to hear is true. This is just a moment to celebrate and spotlight the power of nonprofit leadership and to offer what is quite a compelling argument for innovation. Perhaps you find yourself laughing thinking about older adults and technology—not often, a “perfect match.” No names are changed.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
And while a host of obstacles still remain between the rhetoric and the reality of facilitating cross-border livelihoods, these obstacles now represent tangible opportunities for innovation and investment to deliver impact for people on the move: Design scalable and high-quality migration ecosystems. Concerns about “brain drain.”
iMarketSmart
APRIL 5, 2024
If we do that well, we not only make them feel valued but we learn more about them each time we interact with them. This will prove of immense value when we want to be more explicit about seeking their support. That’s what portfolio management really entails.
Bloomerang
OCTOBER 25, 2023
The most frequent question I’m asked is what to do about stagnant boards. If you’d like to talk about these issues, join us on Nov. Boards are about heavy lifting, yet many board members can be characterized as the opposite. If you’d like to talk about these issues, join me on Nov. Tell me more, please, Steve.”
Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
Technological Advancements and Innovation Staying abreast of technological advancements in the solar industry is crucial for achieving cost-effective installations. Continuous innovation often leads to more efficient and affordable solar panels, inverters, and other components.
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