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AI and Racial Justice: Navigating the Dual Impact on Marginalized Communities

NonProfit Quarterly

Without intentional, ethical oversight, the data and algorithms behind AI risk repeating patterns of exclusion, discrimination, and bias. It reaches into healthcare, finance, justice, education, and public policy, promising to streamline and elevate.

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Sector Adopting AI, Building Reserves, and Expanding, Survey Shows

NonProfit Quarterly

This is among the takeaways from the 2024 Nonprofit Standards Benchmarking Survey , conducted by accounting and advisory organization BDO, which takes stock of the finances of the US nonprofit sector and other key trends, including the growing use of AI. Nonprofits focused on shoring up their finances in 2024.

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How Boards Can Confidently Assess Executive Pay

NonProfit Quarterly

Williams noted that getting compensation right requires balancing objective considerations like the law, finances, and comparable salaries elsewhere, as well as subjective ones like how an executive’s compensation will affect how the nonprofit is perceived, both internally and among external stakeholders.

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Gather, Share, Build

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Ethically gathering reliable, consistent, and accurate data costs money, but its the only way to achieve an ecosystem in which most of the world can reap the benefits of emerging technology. Today, a major component of that infrastructure asymmetry is simply a lack of the volume and types of data required to make AI work.

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How to Restore Community Economies: Reestablishing the Right to Associate

NonProfit Quarterly

Public policy needs to facilitate large-scale financing for mutualist enterprises—organizations like cooperatives , employee-ownership trusts , and mutual insurance companies. On the first page, she puts the mutualist ethic this way: “We can look to one another to solve the most intractable problems we encounter in our lives.”

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Key Qualities and Skills to Look for in Potential Board Members

Blue Avocado

Each board member may bring a specific skill or may be a generalist, but in the aggregate, the board provides a full set of business skills to ensure that the executive director is employing best practices — whether it’s finance, budgeting, strategic planning, change management, or succession planning.

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I Wish Someone Would Have Told Me… Stories Can Be Ethical & Still Raise Funds

NonProfit Hub

I Wish Someone Would Have Told Me… Stories Can Be Ethical & Still Raise Funds When I first started working in the nonprofit sector, I was bright-eyed, eager, and deeply passionate about the causes I served. Through ethical storytelling, we can do better, for everyone involved.

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