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Facial Recognition Technology’s Enduring Threat to Civil Liberties

NonProfit Quarterly

Not only has AI forever altered the technological landscape, but it also carries monumental and potentially corrosive impacts on the economic, political, and interpersonal terrain that makes up our everyday lives. Among the most recent and rapid developments of AI is facial recognition technology.

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The Risks of Carbon Capture

NonProfit Quarterly

1 The Global CCS Institute, a think tank dedicated to researching and developing the technology behind CCS, calls the technology a “game-changer” that can build a path to a “zero-carbon economy.” 3 The first step is “capturing” the carbon, often from the air, from places like power plants, by using post-combustion capture technology.

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HLTH 2022: Obstacles to Health Equity

NonProfit Quarterly

Since its inception in 2018, HLTH has focused on elements of the healthcare industry and served as a connective tissue for health payers, providers, employers, and investors seeking solutions to improve health outcomes, and the technology companies, vendors, and experts offering them. There’s been a huge proliferation in this space.

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The Promise of Impact Science

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Impact science has the power to totally transform philanthropy, government funding, academic research, public policy analysis, program evaluation, management consulting, ESG investing, nonprofit fundraising, and many more adjacent fields. Next Steps for Impact Science. So how do we make it happen?

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The Call of Leadership Now: BIPOC Leaders in a Syndemic Era

NonProfit Quarterly

We are living through a syndemic—a time of multiple crises causing seismic economic, political, environmental, technological, and social shifts, which are long from being settled. Click here to download this article as it appears in the magazine, with accompanying artwork.

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How Policy Is Building a Social Economy in South Korea

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPA became the first “social economy” law in Asia to address traditional-market failures and bring social objectives into a broader range of government-supported economic enterprises. The first legally registered worker cooperative was the Alternate Drivers’ Cooperative, which formed in 2010 before passage of the FAC law.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

This was not so often the case in the 1960s, when civil rights laws were passed and long-term employment, at least in unionized sectors, was the norm; it is the case today. 23 William Gale, codirector of the Urban Brookings Tax Policy Center, concurs. 6 (July 1991): 1241–99. Sniderman et al., 1 (February 1996): 33–55.