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Honest Brokers, Technology, and Health Justice: What Are We Learning?

NonProfit Quarterly

For the nonprofit sector in particular, this can be key to resolving issues and creating more inclusive, fair, and effective systems through transparent decision-making. But the sector needs a more compelling, ethical model for a brokerage that uses decentralized governance, transparency, and inclusivity.

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Gather, Share, Build

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Nithya Ramanathan & Jim Fruchterman Recent milestones in generative AI have sent nonprofits, social enterprises, and funders alike scrambling to understand how these innovations can be harnessed for global good. One way to think about this is that in order to build cars we first need to invest in the roads. Heres how we get there.

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Why Fashion Education Needs to Care About Climate Change

NonProfit Quarterly

Yet 94 percent of companies report a lack of personnel capable of effectively executing their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) agendas. Sustainability is becoming more than just a trendit is a necessity for fashion brands striving to remain relevant and ethical in the eyes of increasingly conscious consumers.

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Reimagining equity with AI: What philanthropy can do

Candid

AI is transforming industries, and the nonprofit sector is no exception. Concerns about authenticity, disparities in access, and biases in AI tools raise urgent questions: Will this technology help bridge societal gaps, or will it deepen them? We bear the responsibility to ensure AI adoption is equitable, ethical, and inclusive.

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The AI Mirror—How to Reclaim Our Humanity in the Age of Machine Thinking

NonProfit Quarterly

The AI Mirror by DALL-E 3/OpenAI.com/DALLE 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? Shannon Vallor: I think its important to recognize that AI is not one technology but many. 1 Can you elaborate on that?

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Powerful, Not Powerless: Emerging Approaches to Massive Action

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Autocratic governments, nihilistic oligarchs, escalating climate impacts, dynamic pandemics, menacing technologies, rampant misinformationall of these forces and more conspire to leave Americans and people around the world feeling less safe, more uncertain, and more frightened about the future. These massive actions are not anomalies.

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

Candid

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. Yet, in philanthropy—and specifically in grantmaking—such transformation has been slow to arrive.