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How Wall Street Co-opted Impact Investing—And What to Do about It

NonProfit Quarterly

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) leaders and ethics officers speak of how good practices protect reputation and enhance profits. Even among impact investors—the most radical among ethical investors, committed to making deliberate, positive impact with their investments—two-thirds say they seek “market rate” returns.

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Building Community through Holistic Strategy: A Story from a Seattle Immigrant Suburb

NonProfit Quarterly

The White Center Community Development Association (White Center CDA), where I work, is deeply engaged in this community building work. The HUB repurposes a former public health center location on 8th Avenue, conveniently located n ear public transit and retail corridors and within walking distance of local schools.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Common Challenges

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

These technologies are more than just catchphrases; they reshape hub industries like retail, healthcare, and finance. Overcoming these obstacles requires collaboration between technology leaders, domain experts, ethicists, regulators, and civil society organizations. Chapters Artificial Intelligence: What Is It?

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Facial Recognition Technology’s Enduring Threat to Civil Liberties

NonProfit Quarterly

After being publicly ousted from Google in 2020 , Timnit Gebru, a frequent collaborator and co-author with Buolamwini, started the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) , which creates “space for independent, community-rooted AI research.” Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (February 2020): 145–151.

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Unlocking the Power of Data Refineries for Social Impact

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Anatomy of a Data Ecosystem Data ecosystems exist in many fields: finance, health care, retail, entertainment, elections, and even sports. Data ethics has even more heightened sensitivity in the public and nonprofit sectors, where trust is essential to an organization’s license to operate. Decision support.