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The Role of AI Agents in Addressing Global Challenges of Social Enterprises

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Social enterprises focus on creating measurable social or environmental benefits alongside financial returns. As the complexity of global issues like climate change, poverty, and inequality continues to escalate, AI agents are emerging as transformative tools.

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Diaspora Philanthropy 3.0

Stanford Social Innovation Review

While it has, by far, the largest number of poor people in the world, India has arguably pulled more people out of poverty over the last 20 years than any other country in history (with the possible exception of China). Some may ask, why donate to India, the fifth largest economy in the world, which by 2030 will be the third?

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A Systems Change Framework to Impact Investing

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Daniela Afonso , Mariana Cabral , Ana Pimenta & Ricardo Zzimo Impact investing arises from a deep desire to use finance to address complex societal challenges such as poverty, climate change, and gender inequality. Is Kenya's health care digitization project linked to broader East African initiatives?

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From HeLa Cells to Digital Health: Navigating the Promises and Pitfalls of Modern Clinical Research

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Dall-E by OpenAI Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? However, the pressing need for equity as relates to both the tech industry and healthcare makes digital health a very complex challenge.

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How the Climate Crisis Impacts People Who Are Unhoused

NonProfit Quarterly

Because unhoused people spend long periods of time outdoors, its harder for them to receive public health alerts about upcoming weather events. For example, in Philadelphia , theres the Heatline , a special phone number that residents can call for information about health concerns or questions related to heat.

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Sustainability Backsliding Doesn’t Have to Mean Back to Square One

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The head of the EPA has asked the White House to repeal the endangerment finding, which says that greenhouse gases pose a threat to public health and welfare, contradicting climate science. For poverty and climate action, none of the targets are on track. How should companies respond this catastrophic backsliding?

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A Letter to Philanthropy: Saviorism Will Not Save Our Ecosystems

NonProfit Quarterly

2 She has gone on to inspire countless youth activists and organizers fighting for climate and environmental justicethe issues raised in her speech 32 years ago being as critical now as they were back then, if not more so. I did not know the history of youth organizing for environmental justice.