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Doing good with AI tools: Navigating ethical considerations for the social sector 

Candid

As AI is increasingly used in high-impact ways such as writing and assessing grant proposals, how can we make sure that it is used ethically, minimizing the risk of harm? We continue to refine the data we use for training and evaluating our grants auto-coding system. The harmful impact of these early problems was clear.

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The Unrecognized Risk of Status Quo Problem-Solving Skills for Grantmakers

sgEngage

The Funder’s Role in Risk Funders—by which I mean donors, foundations, impact investors, and government agencies that grant financial support—disincentivize risk in a few ways. Organizations play funders’ perfection game by writing grant proposals and making promises to funders as if they can predict the future. Please help now.”

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GA Apocalypse: The Deprecation of Universal Google Analytics

Whole Whale

For nonprofits, Google Ad Grant may be at risk if it isn’t connected to a working Google Analytics property. Here is the exact language as of April 2021 from Google’s announcement: Universal Analytics will be going away. Can you just ignore this and hope the problem solves itself: nope Yes, this is as annoying as you think it is.

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In Times of Crisis, You See Nonprofits Helping, Solving, Rebuilding

Saleforce Nonprofit

Our first task was to create an efficient solution that would allow us to accept all donations in any currency, and which could support many different languages,” Yaroslav said. Making Grant Writing Easier for Climate Organizations. They needed to quickly and effectively find a solution to manage the inflow of support from abroad.

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Khmer Open Source

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I came across this one for Khmer Open Source Project. We envision, in 2007, a country where Cambodians can learn and use computers in their own language, a country that does not have to change to a new language in order to use computers!

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Recruiting Geeks for Human Rights!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We use free and open source software whenever possible, but we're pragmatic and work with what our human rights monitoring and advocacy partners need, so our environment is a pretty eclectic mix. Also helpful: Interest in and comfort with languages other than English, especially Spanish, French, Russian, or Arabic.

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Announcing Our First Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Addressing Food Insecurity in the U.S.

Saleforce Nonprofit

For example, our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. She received both a Bachelor’s in Spanish Language & Literature and a Master of Public Administration degree from Binghamton University.

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