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Are Associations Losing Their Members’ Trust?—The Leadership ColLAB Explores This Critical Question

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We asked Nancy MacRae, MS, CEO of the Emergency Nurses Association , to help us frame this conversation by sharing her group’s commitment to that idea. Nancy emphasized one important idea that we don’t consider often enough. Trust and Culture Trust and culture are deeply intertwined. Working on culture isn’t a finite activity.

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Report: Insights from the Google AI Impact Challenge

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last year, Google made an open call to organizations around the world to submit their ideas for how they could use AI to help address these social challenges. Each area describes the project idea, type of AI technology and data sources. Have a clear idea of the responsibility guidelines to be followed .

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations. I love to hark back to Thomas Jefferson’s take on ideas. “He

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'Thanks to Public Allies, I am Now, and Forever, an Agent of Impact'

ASU Lodestar Center

I didn’t know how I could turn ideas into action, but I wanted to learn. Starting out, my main focus was recruiting community members to become change makers and role models in children’s lives—also known as Big Brothers and Big Sisters. At BBBS, my work has consistently been about engaging and empowering others.

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Research Friday: Human Capital Performance Bonds. What are they? How do they work?

ASU Lodestar Center

The past decade has been rife with ideas on how to scale up successful nonprofit organizations. Calls for scaling have been amplified by the recent economic recession, which brought increased demand for social services coupled with shrinking government dollars. Municipal bonds (munis) are debt obligations issued by government entities.

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The Move On Model: Inciting Visitor Social Action

Museum 2.0

In two months, 10,000 visitors sent postcards (and fortuitiously, the government acted in favor of protection). The museum display included information about the issue, a countdown clock to the government's decision, and a running tally of postcards submitted to date.

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Nurturing Inner City Entrepreneurs: Jose Corona of Inner City Advisors

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What we do here in Oakland, and throughout the Bay Area, is we work with inner city companies that not only have a scalable model, but also have a social responsibility aspect built into their business model. Too often policy makers and governments make it more difficult for someone to do business in their city than easier.

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