Community Building Is Essential to Social Change …
Nov 7, 2024 · As traditional power dynamics shift, participatory models are emerging. And as Henry Timms and Jeremy Heimans highlight in their important book, New Power, old hierarchies are giving way to more distributed networks.Soon, artificial intelligence (AI) tools will be integral to everyone’s daily lives, and they will reshape how foundations and nonprofits achieve their missions—especially when ...
When It Comes to Understanding Donors, Does Size Matter Most?
Oct 10, 2024 · One of the most fundamental distinctions we tend to make in US philanthropy is between individual and institutional donors. Individual donors include both wealthy philanthropists and millions of average Americans who collectively …
Stanford Social Innovation Review: Informing and Inspiring …
sponsored “Our souls are crying out for something right now.” In a time of deep division, how can organizations reflect the vision and values of a true multiracial democracy and begin to bring people back together?
Wikimedia Foundation: Building Trust Through Community
Nov 21, 2024 · In 2020, people viewed COVID-related content on Wikipedia—the free, online encyclopedia—579 million times in more than 180 languages. In fact, medical content on the site received more pageviews than any other health information resource online that year.
What Is Community Anyway? - Stanford Social Innovation Review
May 12, 2015 · David M. Chavis, Ph.D. (@chavispower) is the Principal Associate and CEO of Community Science and is internationally recognized for his work in the implementation, support, and evaluation of community and systems change initiatives.The primary focus of his work has been the relationship between community development and the prevention of poverty, violence, substance abuse, and other social ...
The Vision of a Well-Being Economy - Stanford Social Innovation …
Dec 16, 2020 · To solve the social, economic, and environmental challenges we face today, we need to rethink the status quo. Governments and other institutions around the world need to embrace new ways of thinking and actively engage in widespread systems innovation to make real progress toward a healthier, more prosperous world.
Cost Evidence Is Essential to Maximizing Humanitarian Aid and …
Oct 7, 2024 · A Moment of Peril—and Dwindling Dollars . The humanitarian sector faces a massive funding shortfall. Over 55 percent of need, or $32 billion, went unfunded in 2023, and 88 percent of all humanitarian funding comes from just 10 government donor budgets—a precarious formula.. At the same time, the people we serve face enormous overlapping challenges.
Rethinking Humanitarian Aid to Conflict-Affected Countries
Oct 16, 2024 · In 2023, according to the Global Humanitarian Overview, aid organizations faced a $37 billion funding shortfall to help crisis-affected communities.Yet in that year, the World Bank’s International Development Assistance alone had pledged about a third of that amount to governments affected by fragility and conflict.
AI’s Impact on Jobs and Work Is a Choice Between Two Futures
Oct 25, 2023 · In November 2022, OpenAI grabbed headlines by releasing ChatGPT, and “generative AI” became a term used in households around the world. According to Open AI CEO Sam Altman, “A lot of people working on AI pretend that it’s only going to be good; it’s only going to be a supplement; no one is ever going to be replaced.”But, he adds, “jobs are definitely going to go away, full stop.”
How Organizations Build Trust - Stanford Social Innovation Review
Jan 11, 2024 · With funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (the views in this article do not necessarily represent those of the foundation), a team of us at Spitfire Strategies took a close look at the social science research from the last 20 years about earning and rebuilding trust, interviewed and heard from more than 25 leaders on their trust-building work, and explored case studies to see trust ...