Technology for good : how nonprofit leaders are using software and data to solve our most pressing social problems / Jim Fruchterman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fruchterman, Jim, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nonprofit organizations--Management.

Nonprofit organizations.

Nonprofit organizations--Data processing.

Technological innovations--Social aspects.

Technological innovations.

Social entrepreneurship.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 201 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2025]

Summary:

"A visionary guide to using technology for positive social change, from a MacArthur genius awardee, former rocket engineer, and passionate leader in the social enterprise movement. The accepted wisdom in big business is that the only worthy ideas are ones that make a lot of money, preferably billions. But Jim Fruchterman believes there is a different path for technology. What if tech returned to its roots and made people more effective and powerful? What if the benefits of technology came to the 90 percent of humanity traditionally neglected by for-profit companies in favor of immense profits gained by focusing on the richest 10 percent? In Technology for Good, Fruchterman explores that question and delivers a comprehensive how-to for leaders who want to create, expand, join, support, and improve organizations that see building technology as a key element of delivering on their social good mission. The author makes a strong case that tech is required for social change at scale. He then offers guidance on how to structure, fund, staff, manage, scale, and sustain nonprofits that leverage technology for social good. The book includes actionable, proven practices; compelling case studies of nonprofits that have "cracked the code" on tech for good; and Fruchterman's own stories of what he has learned as a tech-for-good entrepreneur. With 80 percent of the examples in the book from organizations and individuals outside the US, Technology for Good is a call to action with a genuinely global focus, blazing a path toward a future in which human beings come rightly and justly before profits."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Bringing tech to social change

The top bad ideas in tech for good

The three best tech-for-good ideas

Designing tech for good

Building successful AI solutions

The tech-for-good lifecycle

Funding, talent, and intellectual property

The future of tech for social impact

Afterword. Go forth and use tech for good!

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-191) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Fruchterman, Jim. Technology for good.

ISBN:

9780262050975

0262050978

OCLC:

1478324534