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Leveraging AI in Social Work: A Pathway to Empowering Vulnerable Populations

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

In this blog post, I’ll explore the possibility of AI in social work, examine real-world applications and success stories, address challenges and ethical considerations, and envision the future of this exciting time. One exciting development area is the potential for AI to enhance community-based interventions.

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How to Tell Real Stories About Impact

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In research I did with collaborators for the Broke Project , we found that most stories, profiles, and vignettes related to work to end poverty follow this pattern: while an organization is the protagonist, poor people are defined only by their experience with poverty. Organizations are important collaborators and accomplices in change work.

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Building Narrative Power for Economic Justice by Telling Better Stories

NonProfit Quarterly

We hope that by collaborating to tell better stories about how the rich get rich and the poor stay poor, movements—including activists, communicators, storytellers, and strategists—can begin to transform an oppressive capitalist economic system and build a free, just world in which all people can live with dignity.

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The New Problem-Solving Skills That All Cities Need

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This required a sustained emergency posture and high degrees of creativity, agility, and collaboration. Problem-solving skills empower bureaucracies to take well-defined risks, while reflecting the unique ethical considerations of the public-sector operating environment.

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Nonprofit Holiday Gift Guide

Nonprofit Megaphone

In their online shop , 100% of all sales proceeds go toward helping save the lives of homeless pets! Susie’s Senior Dogs (SSD) is a nonprofit organization “working to bring awareness to the plight of homeless senior dogs. We’re proud of this collaboration between the Field Museum and Two Brothers Coffee Roasters.

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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

Nonprofits would be trusted to hire the right consultants and form partnerships that are collaborative and generative toward their racial and economic justice goals. In short, a social and solidarity economy is ruled by an ethic of care and a commitment to protect and amplify life on this planet.

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What is Climate Psychology? An Interview with Climate Psychology Alliance’s Rebecca Weston

NonProfit Quarterly

The homelessness that happens, the lack of shelter, the lack of livelihood, the lack of security. We are imagining actually creating a genuine project in a collaborative way that could include a survey of journalists about what they need. And our work with Solutions Journalism Network and Uproot is deepening.