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Facial Recognition Technology’s Enduring Threat to Civil Liberties

NonProfit Quarterly

Not only has AI forever altered the technological landscape, but it also carries monumental and potentially corrosive impacts on the economic, political, and interpersonal terrain that makes up our everyday lives. Among the most recent and rapid developments of AI is facial recognition technology.

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The Risks of Carbon Capture

NonProfit Quarterly

1 The Global CCS Institute, a think tank dedicated to researching and developing the technology behind CCS, calls the technology a “game-changer” that can build a path to a “zero-carbon economy.” 3 The first step is “capturing” the carbon, often from the air, from places like power plants, by using post-combustion capture technology.

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22 Statistics About #GivingTuesday Donors Worldwide

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Children and youth – 10%. Research and public policy – 1%. Public media and communications – 0%. Science and technology – 0%. Latin America and the Caribbean – 9%. 3) 74% of GivingTuesday donors are female, 25% male, and 1% non-binary. Animals and wildlife – 11%.

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25 Must-Know Global Trends in Giving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Sponsored by the Public Interest Registry and researched by Nonprofit Tech for Good, the report summarizes donor data across six continents about how online and mobile technology effects giving. Arts and culture (2%), peace and nonviolence (1%), and research and public policy (1%) are the least donated to causes.

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10 Marketing Realities Nonprofits Need to Accept to Succeed

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Reality 2: There is no such thing as the general public. The general public includes everyone, from children to seniors, rich and poor, incarcerated and homeless. No matter how much you try, you will not reach everyone. In fact, if that’s what you try to do, odds are good that you will, in fact, reach no one.

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With Help from the Donors of Color Network, Two Organizations Are Creating Change

NonProfit Quarterly

Wright has set out to change environmental racism and policies that favor the gas and oil industries over the wellbeing of Black families and children. According to Dr. Wright, DSCEJ will set its sights on carbon capture and storage technology and the issues that come along with it. Wright said. “We

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Building Union Power to Rein in the AI Boss

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Another algorithmically-controlled system subsequently decided that some of those parents’ income could no longer support their families, and nearly 1,700 children were forcibly removed from their homes. Tens of thousands of parents stopped receiving child care support and instead received letters demanding repayment of thousands of euros.