Nonprofits, It’s Time to Own Your Social Media Audience
A call for organizations to mitigate the risk of change in the social media landscape by strategically decoupling themselves from platforms that are causing harm.
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Rehumanizing Fundraising With Artificial Intelligence
As nonprofits emerge from the shock of the pandemic and financial crisis, there is an opportunity to rethink fundraising and improve donor retention rates by embracing emerging technologies like artificial intelligence.
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Insuring the Future of Work
Hire Purpose proposes how the insurance industry’s practice of actuarial science can be utilized to train a new generation of workers in the COVID-19 world.
Lessons on Running Virtual Events From Nonprofit News Organizations
With the COVID-19 pandemic forcing civil society groups of all types to take fundraisers online, nonprofit news outlets’ efforts with virtual, discussion-based events can provide additional ideas for any organization seeking to foster community and maintain financial viability.
How Tech Companies Can Advance Data Science for Social Good
With only 68 percent of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals being tracked by reliable data, technology companies can and must do more to help organizations achieve the potential of the data science for social good movement. Leaders in the field share four insights showing how.
Vaccinating Against Fires
LaderaTECH is developing a hydrogel to preventatively treat areas at high risk for wildfires.
Healing Our Health System, One Vote at a Time
How the work of bringing voter registration kiosks into emergency rooms has become more urgent—and more difficult—during the COVID-19 pandemic, and also expanded in scope. Part of a series on civil society's response to the pandemic.
How to Ensure Medical Devices Help Communities in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Governments, foundations, and social enterprises that want to ramp up the production and distribution of medical equipment in response to COVID-19 and other ongoing threats need to assess the process holistically or risk overpromising and underdelivering on important aid. Part of a series on civil society's response to the pandemic.
A Digital Lifeline in a Public Health Crisis
Five lessons from a global development organization in Bangladesh that used a digital cash transfer program to help poor families struggling with COVID-19. Part of a series on civil society's response to the pandemic.
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How Technology Shapes Social Movements
In an excerpt from The Future of Change, Ray Brescia analyzes how VAWA proponents used digital platforms to broaden their message and support.