Based on her talk at the annual National Council of Nonprofit's conference in June, Ignited Word's Malaika Cheney-Coker writes about how nonprofits can regain public trust by behaving more like movements.

Analyst Nia Okafor has been quietly investigating a suspicious funding source for a community project two years in the making. Suddenly, the mysterious fund code resolves into an organization that looks almost too clean to be real. The colleague who flagged it before she could has an explanation that almost holds together. And the community leader whose project is at stake has issued an instruction Nia did not expect — and is not sure she can follow.

In Which Nia Finds a Mystery Code — Part 1 Nia Okafor's work at the Gulf Coast Civic Resource Exchange is often tedious, largely rewarding, and never — until now — implicated in anything nefarious. When she discovers a flow of money into community projects that can't be sourced to any known fund, she faces a choice no compliance manual quite covers: follow the thread, or protect the people she's spent years trying to serve. Set in 2040, a post-Great Intelligence Disruption w

by Robby Vaflor Lately, I’m increasingly finding myself yearning for the old internet—think 2000s to early 2010s—when you actually surfed the web. It was a time when user activity felt more open-ended, and people weren’t just funneled into the same handful of platforms. While many of the websites then (even branded ones) lacked polish, they certainly weren’t lacking in character: fun little mini games, easter eggs, animations, and chunks of text you actually wanted to read. T

A Call for “Slow-Thinking” The Care and Feeding of the Human Brain in the Age of AI By Malaika Cheney-Coker A much-needed wake-up call or the provocations of an alarmist? Experts and AI pundits have been choosing these and other lenses to interpret Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s r ecent statement that AI could wipe out half of entry-level white collar jobs in one to five years. But within the swirl of opinions and the unknowns on how the technology will develop and be adopted

By Ena Taguiam and Darnesha Tabor What Happens When You Invite AI Into an Outcome Evaluation? Last month, we wrapped up WomenStrong International’s outcome evaluation , which explored two main questions: (1) how are organizations building strength and resilience given WomenStrong’s support, and, (2) in what ways have partners changed over the past few years. Given the subtleties of what we were classifying as outcomes – changes within organizations that may not yet have manif