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The Hard Problems: A Resilient Civil Society To Face What’s Next

The NonProfit Times

(Photo By Deposit Photos) By Marnie Webb From the frontlines of disaster relief to the forefront of technological innovation, civil society organizations are navigating a rapidly changing landscape. What does this mean for civil society in the coming year?

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Honest Brokers, Technology, and Health Justice: What Are We Learning?

NonProfit Quarterly

But the sector needs a more compelling, ethical model for a brokerage that uses decentralized governance, transparency, and inclusivity. On the other hand, the brokers have faced ethical dilemmas and difficulties staying impartial while finding confidential information related to political strategies.

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Powerful, Not Powerless: Emerging Approaches to Massive Action

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Autocratic governments, nihilistic oligarchs, escalating climate impacts, dynamic pandemics, menacing technologies, rampant misinformationall of these forces and more conspire to leave Americans and people around the world feeling less safe, more uncertain, and more frightened about the future.

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Developing Responsible AI Policy For Civil Society

The NonProfit Times

By Shaista Keating and Chloe Mankin The rapid evolution and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence technologies (AI) offer both opportunities and challenges to civil society, particularly concerning responsible and ethical usage. Foundational efforts in these areas are underway.

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When Journalism Becomes a Weapon: A Call for Ethical Reporting

NonProfit Quarterly

In so doing, they handed a target list to a hostile government that has a public practice of threatening its opponents and squashing dissent. Compiling a comprehensive list of civil society targets under a hostile government puts lives at stake. ” “Recall professional ethics.” It is dangerous.

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Philanthropy Must Stand, Deliver, and Listen

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Philanthropy’s response to government cuts has been shadowed by fears that stepping in to support programs, services, and institutions that have lost revenue will in effect provide social license for retrenchment, legitimating a new border between private and public responsibility, with the territory of the latter permanently diminished.

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On the Front Lines: How Campus Organizing Can Inform Movements Today

NonProfit Quarterly

Last year, campus organizing drew national attention to bombing and military attacks by Israel in Gaza that have to date taken the lives of an estimated 55,000 Palestinians —and the role of the United States in sustaining those attacks by providing military hardware to the Israeli government.