December, 2023

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How Communities Around the World Are Connecting Social Isolation and Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Paul Cann Current global estimates suggest that 1 in 4 older adults experience social isolation, and 5 to 15 percent of adolescents experience loneliness. Weak social connections cause a higher risk of early death; these are also linked to anxiety, depression, suicide, dementia, and the increased risk of cardiovascular disease and stroke.

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Facial Recognition Technology’s Enduring Threat to Civil Liberties

NonProfit Quarterly

Innovators, company founders, and other tech enthusiasts have long tried to sell the public on the idea that AI will create a path to a brighter future. But novel technologies like AI enter a world already fraught by enduring inequities that show up as injustices and indignities for marginalized people.

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What Is a Community Development Corporation?

NonProfit Quarterly

Without national research into the field or field-level convening or visioning, national policy focusing on these organizations became rudderless. The ability of community groups to recognize each other and form common cause to address pressing issues such as gentrification has been damaged by the lack of connection and mutual understanding.

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With Help from the Donors of Color Network, Two Organizations Are Creating Change

NonProfit Quarterly

To that end, Dr. Wright has set out to change environmental racism and policies that favor the gas and oil industries over the wellbeing of Black families and children. The Kresge Foundation is just one of the funders to get on board. Founded in 1992 by Dr. Beverly L. Recently, the DSCEJ released an updated map. Our people are inundated.”

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Calling Out, Calling In, and Calling Upon One Another

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It wasn’t until he joined a group of fellow CEOs, convened through American Leadership Forum Silicon Valley (ALF), specifically focused on deepening knowledge and skills around diversity, equity, and inclusion, that he crystallized an anti-racist vision. “I Leaders of color face additional challenges.

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Achieving Health Equity: Shared Stewardship and the Vital Conditions Framework

NonProfit Quarterly

The vital conditions are an evolution, not a replacement, of the social determinants model that has been prevalent since the early 2000s. The lack of meaningful health equity progress is due to business-as-usual approaches and interventions focused on getting quick results—which are often temporary, weak, and ineffective.

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Building the Solidarity Economy by Boosting Black-Owned Co-ops

NonProfit Quarterly

Though based in Oakland, our vision was global: we dreamed of buying a resort in Kenya to create a cooperative healing sanctuary for the Pan-African Diaspora. But this dream met the same fate as countless other ideas in the early aughts—we were “too inexperienced” and lacked the social capital to get this idea off the ground.

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