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Building Community Governance for AI

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Lina Srivastava The aftermath of the OpenAI governance controversy revealed the extent to which power has been consolidated by AI tech giants, a situation with dangerous implications for critical aspects of society. To establish effective AI governance, then, is the challenge for civil society organizations and social innovators.

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How Exemplary Governance Can Keep Nonprofits Operational

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How Exemplary Governance Can Keep Nonprofits Operational. For nonprofits looking to maximize their outreach potential, exemplary governance is the answer. For nonprofits looking to maximize their outreach potential, exemplary governance is the answer. Get Free Stock Photos for your Nonprofit, NGO or Social Enterprise.

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How Resident-Owned Communities Can Create Mass Affordable Homeownership

NonProfit Quarterly

However, this also means that residents contribute very little equity to reduce financing costs. As a result, financing costs can run as much as 110 percent of the purchase price. ROC USA can make this work because it can extend financing via its community development financial institution (CDFI) subsidiary.

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The Social Impact Investment Mirage

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Corporate promises of “partnership” and leveraging their buying power from social enterprises can also be elusive. The company has pledged to procure five percent of its spend from social enterprises and companies led by underrepresented founders by 2025. Consider SAP’s 2020 5 & 5 by 25 announcement.

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Putting Health at the Center of Climate Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Companies can also create goals for their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategies that both improve the well-being of suppliers in the near term and lay a foundation for them to minimize their environmental footprints in the future. Innovation. Influencing Policy.

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Making Food Systems Work for People of Color: Six Action Steps

NonProfit Quarterly

Many large community development financial institutions , credit unions, and foundations present themselves as community-based food financing leaders. Our mission is to challenge systemic barriers in finance and lead a shift to a community-driven framework for equitable capital. EFOD stands for “equitable food-oriented development.”

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How to Restore the Care in Long-Term Nursing Care

NonProfit Quarterly

Specifically, we propose using federal tax credits, combined with Medicare and Medicaid dollars, to restructure the ownership and financing of the nursing care industry. 2012) and demonstrate the failure of government regulations to rein in abuses (Coskun 2022; Silver-Greenberg and Gebeloff 2021). We flesh out each below.