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An Opportunity to Build, In the Crisis

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Yet as indispensable as providing more of philanthropy's core product will be, how that money is spent represents, perhaps, an even larger opportunity. They enable the scaled, collaborative action that is the sine qua non of any adequate response in this moment. They are a counterweight to organizational wasting.

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Empowering Changemakers: A Framework For Public Good Tech

The NonProfit Times

But research ([link] tells us the training, configuration, and resources necessary to ensure products can be used in a nonprofit environment also serve as persistent hurdles in this arena. Design : Civil society does not often have a chance to make their needs explicit as tools are being developed. Cost is a big one.

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Powerful, Not Powerless: Emerging Approaches to Massive Action

Stanford Social Innovation Review

One major strategy to counter this fear lies in massive collaboration, a coming together of individuals, groups, and organizations at unprecedented scale to exert major influence on political and social events. Ready-made platforms for collaboration and broad connectivity mean that staggeringly fast mobilization is possible.

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Ensuring The Right To Free Association Online

The NonProfit Times

technology sector, trust and safety emerged in the past fifteen years as a term to describe the teams and operations working to mitigate the harm (to users or others) arising from an online product or platform. Here’s how The Atlantic Council puts it: “Rooted in the U.S. Fact-checking is not enough.

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Building Supply Chains Where Smallholder Farmers Thrive

Stanford Social Innovation Review

To achieve this, more businesses need to join with the government and civil society to actively confront inequality, poverty, and climate change together. Most importantly, without farmers producing reliable, high-quality agricultural products, businesses across the apparel, food, and other industrial sectors will quite simply fail.

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Food Is Her Fight and Her Freedom: Regaining Ground in Rural India

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The fervor of the British Raj, and now of transnational corporations and local elites, to shift lands from community ownership to private control of a few (usually) affluent men continues to denigrate women’s status from being equal and prolific members of an agrarian society to dependent wives with limited access to productive resources.

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Mapping the Landscape of AI-Powered Nonprofits

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Collaborative Google.org research found a 300 percent increase in the application of AI to address the SDGs since 2018. To make sense of it all, Fast Forward analyzed nearly 100 use cases, collaborated with leaders in the tech-for-good ecosystem, and interviewed dozens of builders. New solutions are coming online every week.