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. …
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.
Community Engagement Matters (Now More Than Ever)
WEBIn October 2010, three men—Chris Christie, governor of New Jersey; Cory Booker, who was then mayor of Newark, N.J.; and Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook—appeared together on The Oprah Winfrey Show to announce an ambitious reform plan for Newark Public Schools. On the show, Zuckerberg pledged a $100 million matching grant to support the goal of making Newark a model for how to ...
The Next 10 Years of Impact Investment (SSIR)
WEBMar 16, 2021 · Just over 10 years ago, JPMorgan and the Rockefeller Foundation, together with the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), published a report claiming that impact investment was an emerging asset class that would reach between $400 billion and $1 trillion in assets under management by 2020. At the time, this prediction seemed like a very ambitious forecast to us as authors of the paper and to ...
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 ...
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 ...
Indigenous Feminism Is Our Culture - Stanford Social Innovation …
WEBFeb 11, 2021 · The words “Indigenous feminism” can be triggering in Indigenous communities. I’ve read op-eds in the Navajo Times saying “feminism is against our culture,” and when I do workshops on the topic, audiences are often defensive and push back on the phrase.I get it. I cringed the first several times I heard the phrase when I imagined strong Diné matriarchs like Juanita or my own ...
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 ...
Centering Equity in Collective Impact - Stanford Social Innovation …
WEBHow Equity Transforms Collective Impact. Centering equity alters the way practitioners implement collective impact. Consider the collective impact initiative Chattanooga 2.0, which launched in 2016 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and works to ensure that all children and youth receive a quality education and promising career opportunities.