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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? Similarly, we saw evidence that the model was associating “People of Latin American descent” with “Incarcerated people.”

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DonorsChoose Interview & Social Media Challenge

Amy Sample Ward

DonorsChoose: open source philanthropy from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Some of the donations will have twice the impact because of a matching grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. My collaborator, JD Lasica , at SocialBrite has just posted the interview and details below. Interview with founder Charles Best.

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. The NetSquared website was itself designed to be a model Web 2.0 If the Wikipedia community can build Wikipedia with the smallest handful of grant dollars and paid staff, what could the AIDs community do if it embraced these tools? Podcasting.

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How to Build Platforms that Our Movements Can Own

Non Profit Quarterly

The nonprofit landscape is littered with abandoned grant-funded and poorly maintained tech projects. Before long, you’ll have the development assistant searching Google for “technology grants.”. Only technology companies (with some exceptions in the open-source world) do that well.

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Risk & Reward: Open Road Alliance and Candid launch new risk management course for funders

Candid

Janet : Open Road Alliance was founded in 2012 with the ambitious goal of helping the social sector weather the unexpected risks that threaten to derail impact. There’s not enough grant money anywhere to solve the world’s problems. Ultimately, Open Road’s strategy is an efficiency play. We can’t trust risk away.

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