“AI” has rapidly moved to the top of political and economic agendas across the globe. Governments are positioning AI as a cornerstone of national competitiveness, shaping industrial policy, public investment strategies, and regulatory frameworks.
In this context, how can we centre openness, equity and justice in AI-related policy strategy?
Aspiration was delighted to accept an invitation from Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers to speak at their Annual Member Conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Key points were captured in our ever-improving (*gasp*) slideware. We welcome comments, and we're glad to discuss these essential sustainability processes with anyone who's interested.
Today we tried to have a Nonprofit Ops brown bag lunch about creating an Nonprofit Operations Manual but no one showed up. I'm not sure if it is because this isn't an interesting topic or my poor advertising. Oh well--I did have quite a few people e-mail me and tell me they couldn't make it to the discussion and asked me to send them an Operations Manual template.
After the wind down of the conference, and sleeping off my red-eye flight back to Maine, now I’m a little nostalgic. Ah, the people, the knowledge, the horrible geek trivia… But to keep the momentum going, I thought I’d document the commitments I’ve made to move things forward – so at a minimum I’ll feel really guilty if I don’t follow through. We crystallized a number of initiatives that I’m excited about:
I'm here at the Nonprofit Software Development Summit and have been doing mostly logistics, however today I was able to attend a session facilitated by Laura Quinn of Idealware called "Gaps in Nonprofit Software" the notes from the session can be found here.
It was an exciting discussion for me because the first twenty minutes or so we discussed gaps in back-end office software (or what I call nonprofit operations software) specifically:
