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10 Ways Funders Can Address Generative AI Now

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Most obviously, funders working in specific issue areas—climate, health, education, or in my case, democracy—can work to support efforts downstream to prepare government and civil society in their respective sectors to take advantage of the opportunities and mitigate the risks of AI on their specific areas of concern.

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Reading List: Bridging Divides to Create Social Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Stanford Social Innovation Review ’s 2022 Nonprofit Management Institute (NMI) will focus on opportunities to bridge the divides that exist in society. How do we encourage greater cooperation and collaboration in what can feel like an increasingly divisive world? In-Person Workshop: Curious Conversations. September 14 at 10 a.m.

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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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Why Organizers Need Mobilizers and Mobilizers Need Organizers

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The implication is that we need to approach social change not like we are seeking a silver bullet, but rather in search of collaborative principles that allow different people power strategies to coexist and stimulate productive change together. Central Coordination In 2015 and 2016, GetUp! Rather than acting alone, GetUp!

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Small Organizations: The Change That Systems Change Needs

Stanford Social Innovation Review

As a collaborative effort with multiple funding partners , we have regular conversations with foundations from across the globe. Together, they address barriers to safe and healthy diets through capacity building, strategic collaborations, and advocacy for increased resources, improved policies, and better government accountability.

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Get Inspired: 40 Quotes About Nonprofit Leadership and Fundraising

Nonprofit Fixer

The nonprofit sector should get way more credit for being a bedrock of our society — for being the compass leading us all in the direction of a truly civil society. It deserves that.” - Joan Garry ( source ) “Nonprofits attract the best in society because they see beyond the economic gain.

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Lessons From the Failures of Covax

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Without an equally unprecedented level of coordination and collaboration—requiring rigorously examining the lessons of the pandemic response—all of us will be impacted by these future challenges, particularly people living in global majority (or lower- and middle-income) countries.