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It’s Not in Your Mind: Addressing Mental Health Through a Social Justice Lens

NonProfit Quarterly

There is good reason to wonder whether collecting all types of suffering into medicalized mental health disorders is the most accurate or ethical approach when it comes to addressing these crises,” says Dr. Zenobia Morrill , a psychology professor at William James College.

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Minding the Gaps: Neuroethics, AI, and Depression

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? 2 In this way and many others, AI could facilitate exponentially faster, and more significant, medical advances. 10 Only 35.1

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Why Guardianship Reform Is a Civil Rights Imperative

NonProfit Quarterly

A new report by the Massachusetts Guardianship Policy Institute indicates that an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 “unbefriended” or “unrepresented, at-risk” individuals in my home state “face significant risks to their health, safety, and well-being due to decisional incapacity and a lack of financial or social resources.”

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

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Social enterprises focusing on health equity can leverage these capabilities to improve access to care in regions with limited medical infrastructure. Social enterprises must adopt ethical frameworks to guide AI agent development solutions.

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Embracing rapid change: Trends shaping the nonprofit sector in 2025

Candid

In another example, the American Cancer Society used AI to examine GoFundMe campaigns and found that over one-third of fundraising stories explicitly described financial hardships caused by medical issues. They understand the states health inequities and the need to address those gaps didnt come about in a few short years.

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Why we’re still waiting for the ‘AI moment’ that will transform grantmaking 

Candid

Artificial intelligence is reshaping nearly every industry, from finance to health care to retail. Breakthroughs in drug discovery, medical imaging, and precision agriculture that enable scientists to predict early-stage drug performance and suggest optimal timing for farmers to plant crops highlight the sweeping potential of this technology.

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Powerful, Not Powerless: Emerging Approaches to Massive Action

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Donors combined contributions to relieve over $15 billion dollars in medical debt for almost 10 million people living in the United States, facilitated by a nonprofit called Undue Medical Debt. This can be increasingly relevant when social safety net programs shrink.