What Is Community Anyway? - Stanford Social Innovation Review
WEBMay 12, 2015 · David M. Chavis, Ph.D. (@chavispower) is the Principal Associate and CEO of Community Science and is internationally recognized for his work in the implementation, support, and evaluation of community and systems change initiatives.The primary focus of his work has been the relationship between community development and the prevention of poverty, violence, substance abuse, and other social ...
AI’s Impact on Jobs and Work Is a Choice Between Two Futures
WEBOct 25, 2023 · Choosing AI’s Impact on the Future of Work. Rapid advances in AI threaten to eliminate many jobs, but there are still two distinct paths this AI revolution could take. In November 2022, OpenAI grabbed headlines by releasing ChatGPT, and “generative AI” became a term used in households around the world. …
How NGOs Can Work With Governments to Build Partnerships …
WEBSep 22, 2020 · At Integrate Health, we have learned a few key lessons, often the hard way, over the past five years of working to build real partnership with government. 1. Center the voice of government. The literature on scale through public sector “adoption” tends to disproportionately focus on NGOs, positioning governments as the passive recipients of ...
Strengthen Media Literacy to Win the Fight Against Misinformation
WEBMar 18, 2021 · The deliberate or unintentional spread of misinformation, despite capturing widespread public attention, remains as rampant as ever, showing up recently in the form of false claims about COVID-19 vaccines, the Capitol riot, and many other topics.This “infodemic” is polarizing politics, endangering communities, weakening institutions, and leaving people unsure what to believe or whom to trust.
How Nonprofits Get Really Big - Stanford Social Innovation Review
WEBNotes. 1 The Bridgespan Group agreed not to reveal the name of the nonprofit. 2 The Bridgespan Group is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit applying management strategies, tools, and talent to help other nonprofits and foundations achieve greater social> impact. 3 The Bridgespan Group, "Growth of Youth-Serving Organizations," March 2005. 4 The NonProfit Times 100, 2003. 5 For an excellent discussion of the ...
When Good Algorithms Go Sexist: Why and How to Advance AI …
WEBMar 31, 2021 · The system allowed local women to track, analyze, map, and share data. Another important step is to acknowledge and work against harmful data practices, as outlined in the Feminist Data Manifest-No. 2. Lend your expertise to the field of gender-equitable AI, advocate for AI literacy training, and join the conversation.
The Bias of ‘Professionalism’ Standards
WEBJun 4, 2019 · The standards of professionalism, according to American grassroots organizer-scholars Tema Okun and Keith Jones, are heavily defined by white supremacy culture—or the systemic, institutionalized centering of whiteness. In the workplace, white supremacy culture explicitly and implicitly privileges whiteness and discriminates against non-Western and non-white professionalism standards related ...
What the Heck Does ‘Equity’ Mean? - Stanford Social Innovation …
WEBSep 15, 2016 · The term “equity” is spreading like wildfire in some philanthropic circles. It is showing up more and more in organizations’ mission and values statements. It is making its way into the titles of conferences, plenary and breakout sessions, and meetings at the national, state, and local levels. At a recent gathering of organizations ...
The Science of What Makes People Care (SSIR)
WEBAug 16, 2018 · On March 10, 1748, John Newton, a 22-year-old English seaman who had worked in the slave trade, was traveling home on a merchant ship after a series of misadventures, including being captured and enslaved in Sierra Leone. On that day, a violent storm struck just off the coast of Donegal, Ireland. Rocks ripped a hole in the side of the ship, and ...
Rediscovering Social Innovation - Stanford Social Innovation Review
WEBConsider, for example, the quintessential social innovation: microfinance—the provision of loans, savings, insurance, and other financial services to poor people who lack access to the conventional financial system. Microfinance combats the widespread and intractable problem of poverty: Billions of people trapped in a cycle of subsistence because they cannot gain access to capital to invest ...