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Facial Recognition Technology’s Enduring Threat to Civil Liberties

NonProfit Quarterly

An ecosystem of scientist- and scholar-led nonprofit organizations has emerged to fight bias in AI systems. Many of these nonprofits are led by women of color, especially Black women—the group most likely to go unseen, unrecognized, or mismatched by facial recognition technology, or to experience algorithmic bias in other forms.

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Funding And Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Mental Health

Bloomerang

The grantmakers and funders on this list seek to remedy this healthcare crisis in their communities and beyond. If your organization serves individuals dealing with mental health issues and if any of these funders serve your community, visit their website and discover if there’s a funding opportunity for you. Daniel’s Fund.

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Rest: A Middle Finger to Oppression, a Road Map to Justice by Shawn Ginwright

NonProfit Quarterly

The uniquely American concept of “rugged individualism,” 6 for example, which emphasizes self-determination—combined with the Protestant work ethic that promotes the idea that hard work makes people more likely to go to heaven—helped to lay the ideological groundwork in the United States that devalued rest.

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How Fundraisers Can Reconcile the Competition that Exists Between Your Donors’ & Administrators’ Hero Stories

iMarketSmart

But a nonprofit is not just a fundraising organization. It’s also an operational organization. It might deliver healthcare, research, or education. The first design, which we call a “purpose-driven” organization, pairs flat monetary incentives with a story that emphasizes the importance of generating output (e.g.,

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

Another approach—and one that can also face resistance—is what is known as the worker self-directed nonprofit, which applies management strategies in the worker co-op sector to nonprofits. 45 There are additional steps as well that movements can and must take beyond the nonprofit sector. 2 (Summer 2022): 98–107.

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How to build deeper connections with your donors using surveys

iMarketSmart

2] In one experiment, explaining that asking people to sign a petition was, ultimately, just a way to get either customers (for-profit) or donations (nonprofit) had little impact on the rating of for-profit organizations. But it dramatically decreased the morality rating of nonprofit organizations. 14] James, R.