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Blockchain Technology: What Is It and How Is It Relevant for Nonprofits?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Paul Lamb , Principal at Man On A Mission Consulting , has over 25 years of experience in business, nonprofit management, technology, and public policy. But what exactly is blockchain it and how is it relevant for nonprofits? At its core blockchain is a database technology.

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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 New Problem-Solving Skills That All Cities Need

Stanford Social Innovation Review

But this modern reality comes with an inconvenient truth: Our public institutions are not equipped with the updated skills they need to effectively tackle the world’s ever-escalating challenges—not by a long shot. Consider the climate crisis. There’s good reason for that, as these skills are foundational to the work of a well-run city.

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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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Why Funders Should Go Meta

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Instead of only helping the existing nonprofits who seek to address economic development or criminal justice reform, you’d be helping to figure out what works and what doesn’t. Or you could spend $30 million to try to improve the regulatory and technological obstacles to doing quick and efficient clinical trials.

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Employee Ownership Policy Makes Major Gains—Next Up, Implementation

NonProfit Quarterly

The Regional Technology and Innovation Hubs program is a flagship initiative within the Act, meant to drive business growth and manufacturing jobs for US workers at all skill levels while centering equity and inclusion. The worker co-op sector is exceptionally good at connecting within itself.

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The 2018 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

If you loved our 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar get ready for our new, improved, and updated 2018 calendar! We've searched far and wide for the best and brightest nonprofit conferences from all around the country! Nonprofit Management. Nonprofit Technology, and more! Nonprofit Management.