Non Profit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

But when we talk to an AI tool like ChatGPT, its very easy to be deceived, or to fool ourselves, into thinking that were talking to another mind, that theres another mind over there on the other side of the prompt window thats speaking back to us. Because what they are not are other minds. They are not machine minds.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Empowerment for our participants comes from connecting to an inner wisdom that is often kept hidden from public view, but is a place of extraordinary innate strength and well being. Each card is a piece of art in my mind. Connecting personal wisdom to effect positive change is our goal.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

With that in mind, World of Good has really launched a kind of retail strategy, looking a lot like Hallmark. We started about two years ago with that commercial mission in mind, and we now have 1,000 stores across the United States that have a small section, a World of Good "footprint" in their store. So anyway, it is really exciting.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 17, 2016

We need more empowerment in this world, and these institutions offer it. All of these organizations provide mind-blowing audience experiences and serve as inspiring models for their fields. Children's Museum of Pittsburgh is a terrific place to visit AND a leading force in diverse regional projects to support youth development.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

One of the nonprofits that inspires me locally here in Santa Cruz is a youth empowerment and food justice organization called "Food, What!?" Most of these youth have bigger issues on their minds: addiction, gang violence, social anxiety, the possibility that they may not graduate from high school or get a good job.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

In what is known as the “ braille provision ,” the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 2004 mandates that the teams who help write educational plans for students with disabilities presume that all blind and visually impaired children should be taught Braille unless it is determined to be inappropriate.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 8, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately affecting women and girls around the world, which threatens the gains made in the past decades in advancing women’s economic empowerment, health, rights, and safety. With that in mind, here are three other organizations that are working to break the bias for girls and women across the world.

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Costa Rica Change Game Uganda 111

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

SC: I'd started working with an organization called YouthAIDS which provides services and products to children worldwide who are affected by the HIV/AIDS crisis. This challenge benefited the Cambodian Children's Fund out of Cambodia. You shouldn't beat your wives and your children." I raised a lot of money. I thought, "Great.

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In contrast is the middle third, who are typically helpful and service-minded—but with a caveat. This proved to be a wonderful way to share nationally AbilityFirst’s empowerment philosophy. This invaluable third focuses not on what they as individuals want to do but instead asks: “What can I do to help?”

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OpenAI

JULY 14, 2022

The Orrigos have worked in top children's hospitals around the country and now virtually meet up with families, bringing children’s ideas to life through personalized cartoons, music videos, and mobility friendly video games. It blew our minds.” ” Branja is expected to open in October.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

These are scenarios where humanitys continued empowerment rests on some combination of (a) AIs not choosing to seek power, and (b) the success of active efforts to restrict their options for doing so. And if AI development continues unabated, this broader sort of global vulnerability looks much harder to avoid.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

This last fall we produce a CD called Eye of the Storm which has been an amazing project, just the creativity and the generosity of the artists who participated on this CD still blows my mind. Is it children and literature? So we're bringing a lot of elements together, the innerpersonal the activist. That's just the reality.

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Arts Podcast Action Interview 40

Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. The children are ages 6-16, and they're making huge strides by leading a national movement against child rape in Zimbabwe. I went to 15 countries on five continents, and interviewed and photographed 129 women.

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Photography Interview Change Zimbabwe 40

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

They wanted to create a literacy program for themselves because now there was a school where their children could go to school, but they felt embarrassed that they couldn't support their children because they themselves were illiterate. Women and their children are disproportionately victims of outside violence as well.

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