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Dismantling Bias: Toward Ethical and Inclusive Health Innovation

NonProfit Quarterly

As organizations, networks, and individuals sought solutions, a movement to address inequality through technological innovation started gaining momentum. Understanding the cruel history behind many of the world’s leading medical innovations is a stark reminder that technology is not made out of thin air.

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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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Fundraising Ethics In Higher Education

Bloomerang

Race and ethnicity are forbidden, but specific school districts are permissible in which minorities are populous. Though the rules have been changing, an essential constant has been that donors should not have a dominant voice in the process.

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Essential Skills for Staying Competitive in the Global Job Market

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Companies can now hire workers without being constrained by geography, thanks to developments in communication and technology. A key component of adaptability is learning agility, which is the ability to quickly pick up and use new skills—a critical ability given the speed at which technology is developing.

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Why Nonprofits Need a Values-Based Social Media Strategy

NonProfit Quarterly

A January 2021 report published by Pew Research showed that 54 percent of Black online participants and 47 percent of Hispanic participants say they were targeted for harassment due to race or ethnicity, compared with 17 percent of White users. Sometimes things can go wrong even when your social media staff have done everything right.

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How to Hire the Right People for Raising Major Gifts

iMarketSmart

As the study points out, 26% of giving pledge signers are ethnic minorities, immigrants, or non-US residents. But you don’t have to be of the same race or ethnic background as a donor prospect to effectively engage with them. This is true no matter the ethnic background of the gift officer or the prospect.

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Zero-Problem Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Wealthy philanthropic organizations often view issues through the lens of scientific, technological, and financial superiority. Unfortunately, our blind faith in solutions and the capabilities of new technologies can lead to a careless attitude towards creating problems.