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The Social Impact Investment Mirage

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Corporate promises of “partnership” and leveraging their buying power from social enterprises can also be elusive. The company has pledged to procure five percent of its spend from social enterprises and companies led by underrepresented founders by 2025. Consider SAP’s 2020 5 & 5 by 25 announcement.

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A Social Movement Requires Momentum

Stanford Social Innovation Review

What if more communities of faith exercised an ethic that steeps money in systemic and local economic justice, and thousands of religious endowments invested those assets in local and regional economic development? What if millions of congregants followed suit?

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Facebook Ad Strategy for Non-Profits & Charities: 9 Things to Understand and Test

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Jean O’Brien , founder of Digital Charity Lab , a social enterprise that builds digital skills in non-profits and shares free learning resources. What about the ethical implications of using Facebook? Your time has value, and this activity is not free for your organisation. .

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Building Community Governance for AI

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Public education: Addressing the AI knowledge gap requires fostering engagement and inclusion, and an emphasis on leadership, ethics, and informed public discourse. Ethics don’t mutate when they are applied to a different technology, and these tenets are transferable to the realm of AI.