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Building Community-Centered AI Collaborations

Stanford Social Innovation Review

We need creative, diverse collaborations across various fields to ensure that technology is deployed in ways that align with nonprofit values, build trust, and serve the greater good. Seeking partners outside of the tech world helps nonprofits develop AI solutions that are context-aware, equitable, and resource-sensitive.

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Partnering to Advance Grassroots Movements Through Collaboratives

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This sense of urgency led the Dagevilles to collaborative funds, where they saw the most opportunity to learn while giving and could give in a way that empowered local leaders. Their satisfaction with this funding model has since led to a decision that they will channel 50 percent of their grantmaking budget into collaboratives.

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How cross-sector collaboration can create lasting change 

Candid

The most effective corporate social responsibility efforts are built on real partnerships with nonprofits and supported by government policies that allow these collaborations to thrive. As president and CEO of Easterseals, Ive seen the power of cross-sector collaboration firsthand.

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How Nonprofits Can Leverage Their Financial Relationships to Advance Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

Before releasing the report, in October 2024, Impact Experience convened over 30 representatives from movement organizations, impact investing firms, and environmental justice groups to share best practices, promote collaboration, and cultivate a community focused on utilizing financial systems as tools for systemic change.

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From Uprooted to Uplifted: The Movement to Restore Indigenous Land Rights

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It demonstrated that when innovative leaders empower proximate communities, orchestrate strategic collaboration across sectors and geographies, and unlock creative capital, they dont just challenge the status quothey leap past it, catapulting systemic change forward. Their effort was not an outlier.

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An Opportunity to Build, In the Crisis

Stanford Social Innovation Review

They enable the scaled, collaborative action that is the sine qua non of any adequate response in this moment. This finding aligns with the lived experience of everyone I know in the social sector, including my own during the years I worked to advance clean water at a national environmental organization.

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5 Revenue Streams to Strengthen Nonprofit Sustainability

Ann Green

According to Double the Donations CSR guide , there are five main facets of CSR: Philanthropic , which involves a company directly supporting a nonprofit through charitable contributions, such as matching gifts Volunteerism , in which a company encourages employees to engage with nonprofits by offering grants or paid time off Environmental , in which (..)