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How Machine Learning can Contribute to Social Good

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

How Machine Learning can Contribute to Social Good Now is the right time for businesses, governments, and non-profits to consider ML applications that go beyond automation and improving bottom lines, and figure out how can they use these innovative technologies to contribute to society. Importantly, the app can work offline.

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Making the Affordable Aspirational: Increasing the Adoption of Frugal Innovations at the Base of the Pyramid

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For example, one study found that, in the period 2011-2012, nearly 55–60 million low-income Indians were pushed into poverty because of aspirational consumption, resulting in a reduction of about 13 percent of their daily calorie intake. ” Another example is Kingo in Guatemala.

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12 Early Adopters of the.NGO and.ONG Domains

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Unlike the.ORG domain which can be registered by any individual or brand (but mostly registered by nonprofits and socially conscious for-profits), the new.NGO and.ONG domains can only be registered by nonprofits, charities, NGOs (non-governmental organizations), and ONGs (non-governmental organizations in a romance-based language ).

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America’s Broken Safety Net—and How to Address It: An Interview with Alissa Quart

NonProfit Quarterly

By the end of it, I was asking myself: “Why do people think poverty is their fault? SD: In Bootstrapped, you describe key aspects of the nation’s social support system—or non-system, as the case may be—as a “dystopian social safety net.” Alissa Quart: Definitely, it builds on Squeezed. What led you to come up with that term?

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The Call of Leadership Now: BIPOC Leaders in a Syndemic Era

NonProfit Quarterly

Very few leaders entered this work in order to build a professional career, but many of us have reluctantly or even unconsciously channeled our energies into surviving the nonprofit and philanthropic industrial complex as an end in itself. How do we stand in our power in terms of what we need and deserve for our lives and our communities?

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Nonprofit Holiday Gift Guide

Nonprofit Megaphone

“We’re proud to say that each soft organic cotton t-shirt is made with renewable energy and is designed to be sent back to us to be recycled at the end of its lifecycle.” Earthjustice utilizes their advanced knowledge of environmental law to save natural habitats, reduce pollution, and promote clean energy.

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Grounding Leadership in Community Wisdom

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The group leading the effort is SAGE Development Authority , a public power authority owned by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, which gained international recognition for its leadership in the non-violent protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline. “For our people and me, this project is a prayer,” says Joseph McNeil, Jr.,