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Exit to Open

Author: Jim Fruchterman and Steve Francis
Date: April 24, 2025
Publisher: Stanford Social Innovation Review

In a difficult time when many nonprofits will be forced to close, nonprofit leaders and funders must act to preserve data and other intangible assets.
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Gather, Share, Build

Authors: Nithya Ramanathan and Jim Fruchterman
Date: February 19, 2025
Publisher: Stanford Social Innovation Review

Why data is one of the biggest challenges to leveraging AI for social good—and how the social sector can address it. Taking concrete action now to gather better data, bring data together, and collaborate for AI innovation will set the social sector up to reap the benefits of AI’s emergent power for the greater good.

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Why Don’t Nonprofits Have the Tech They Need?

Author: Jim Fruchterman
Date: September 9, 2020
Publisher: Worth Magazine

When businesses imagine how they might do twice as much, or ten times as much, with the same money or people, they think about using technology. Why is it that the nonprofit sector behaves differently? Technology has immense untapped potential to help advance social innovations, benefiting humanity and the planet. It is time to tap that potential.

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Using Data for Action and Impact

Author: Jim Fruchterman
Date: Summer 2016
Publisher: Stanford Social Innovation Review

There is a growing urgency in the social sector to make better use of data to inform decision-making and evaluate performance, but many organizations struggle to do this. This article provides a framework to help nonprofits and social businesses do better.
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For Love or Lucre

Author: Jim Fruchterman
Date: Spring 2011
Publisher: Stanford Social Innovation Review

A veteran social entrepreneur provides a guide to those who are thinking through the thorny question of whether to create a nonprofit, a for-profit, or something in between.
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