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

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Neurodivergent children often struggle with social interactions, communication, and emotional regulation, hindering their learning and development. This tailored approach can help all children thrive in educational settings and develop the skills they need to succeed in life.

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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. Today’s public officials are most often trained in areas of administration, policy development, fiscal analysis, and in stewarding public resources and promoting public accountability.

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Collaboration Across Social Boundaries: A Practical Guide

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The leaders of a nonprofit community garden want to help residents move up the value chain by selling food products from their homes, but state law restricts food production to commercial kitchens or farms. Simply put, social change requires social collaboration. What, then, can be done to encourage boundary spanning?

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Transitions and Updates

Ken Goldstein

After several months of (Zoom) meetings with the other nonprofit we all reached the conclusion that, while we were all committed to some form of future collaboration, a full merger was not appropriate at this time. We then turned our attention to getting ready to hire FOAS' first permanent Executive Director.

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Impact Investing Can’t Deliver by Chasing Market Returns

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Most practitioners working in community development have accepted this as the reality of impact investing: The harder you drive for social impact in disadvantaged communities, the farther away you get from unbuffered full market return.

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Supporting Diverse Entrepreneurs for Climate Justice

Stanford Social Innovation Review

New commercial and development opportunities need to reach the communities most impacted by climate change. Unreasonable Impact , a collaboration between Unreasonable Group and Barclays, aims to bring these two together. It continues to lift up tribal communities through the development of clean energy products on tribal land.

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A special Q&A session

Get Fully Funded

The topic was “4 Simple Steps Simple Steps to Raising All the Money Your Nonprofit Needs.&# We had SO many questions from listeners that we didn’t get them all answered. A: Growing your donor base is a “must-do” activity for ANY nonprofit. Ask community partners and collaborators for a gift. per day per family?