Perspectives

March 7, 2025

Adegboyega Ojo Discusses Artificial Intelligence in the Public & Nonprofit Sectors

Adegboyega Ojo is a Professor and the Canada Research Chair in Governance and Artificial Intelligence in the School of Public Policy and Administration, at Carleton University. His specialties include digital... More

February 17, 2025

Research Shows Increased Political Contributions Correlates with Increased Charitable Donations

Christopher Dougherty is an MPNL alum and a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for the Study of Philanthropy & Public Good, University of St. Andrews, in the UK. He spoke... More

February 6, 2025

Prof. Calum Carmichael takes issue with a “simplistic” and “tired” take of Effective Altruism

A response to Emma Goldberg’s What if Charity Shouldn’t Be Optimized? By Calum Carmichael, PANL Perspectives, February 2025. For some time now, The New York Times has published an annual... More

December 19, 2024

GivingTuesday Is Creating Better Data & Tools for Our Sector

Samir Khan is the Director of Research with the US-based organization GivingTuesday, which inspires hundreds of millions of people around the world to give, collaborate and celebrate generosity on GivingTuesday... More

November 24, 2024

Handbook of Artificial Intelligence and Philanthropy

The Routledge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence and Philanthropy, edited by Giuseppe Ugazio and Milos Maricic (2024), presents 32 essays from various researchers who explore why and how philanthropic organizations can... More

November 18, 2024

Navigator: AI Tool for the Nonprofit Sector

According to a recent survey, only a quarter of registered charities agree or somewhat agree that they understand well the potential applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the sector, and... More

October 24, 2024

Plus ça Change… Advocacy by Canadian Charities Five Years Later

By Susan D. Phillips and Kim Nguyen. Nguyen is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Charity Insights Canada Project (CICP) or Projet Canada Perspectives des Organismes de Bienfaisance (PCPOB). Phillips is... More

August 8, 2024

Good News, Bad News: Two Decades of Gender Pay Gaps

The nonprofit sector embraces equity as a core value, while the majority of the nonprofit workforce is women. However, traditionally, women have been underrepresented in leadership roles in the sector,... More