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Civil Society Signal and Noise?

Philanthropy 2173

We can't trust the answers from ChatGPT and the tech companies are racing each other to implement similar AI systems into their search products and elsewhere. Here's my question for nonprofits and foundations and activists and associations - to civil society, basically - how do we trust you and your research?

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Why Organizers Need Mobilizers and Mobilizers Need Organizers

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Because these approaches also come with cultural differences and operate along different time scales, it can be hard for organizations to mobilize and organize at the same time. Instead, a culture developed that when parts of the movement disagreed, they would offer and pursue alternative strategies as a response.

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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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How Investors Can Shape AI for the Benefit of Workers

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Now that AI can synthesize huge volumes of information and deliver it at the moment of need—to a technician repairing a downed telephone pole, to a nurse wondering which needle gauge to use, to a young engineer who can automate her code production—the workforce will actually become more fungible.

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In Search of Inclusive Social Entrepreneurship

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It is the attitudes and skills that enable individuals to use their competencies and become more productive and efficient. This can disrupt not only the development of new products and services, but also of new business models and social innovation that has a real impact.

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Dr. James explains what happens when fundraising metrics go bad

iMarketSmart

And they usually don’t become highly productive until about their fourth year at a charity.[14]. In short, focusing on fewer but essential metrics results in increased productivity across a wide range of activities.”[17]. This is true across human cultures. 13] This is a problem for the bottom line. It isn’t management.

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The 2018 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

Join other data experts, academics, practitioners, and social sector leaders for two days of skillfully-led sessions on topics ranging from aligning practice with policy to creating a culture of data, and how Silicon Valley is facilitating data practices in civil society. 2018 Nonprofit Talent & Culture Summit.