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Warnings of an “Unparalleled” Assault on Higher Education

NonProfit Quarterly

The report states that Florida’s public colleges and universities “face a politically and ideologically driven assault unparalleled in US history” (1), with implications for the whole country. Act, banning the teaching in public schools of a wide swath of racial or racially informed curricula.

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Building Public Support for Employee Ownership: Lessons from Colorado

NonProfit Quarterly

This number is somewhat deceptive since it includes large public companies where the only employee benefit is stock ownership. Colorado’s Story Colorado is home to some of the country’s most favorable cooperative laws. According to NCEO , as of December 2021, the US was home to 6,482 ESOP companies with 10.2

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Why Reparations Can Counter the Legacy of a 50-Year “War on Drugs”

NonProfit Quarterly

Co-produced with the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL), this series will examine the many ways that M4BL and its allies are seeking to address the economic policy challenges that lie at the intersection of the struggle for racial and economic justice. Of course, the drug war is not the only reason why reparations are required.

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10 Ways Funders Can Address Generative AI Now

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Most obviously, funders working in specific issue areas—climate, health, education, or in my case, democracy—can work to support efforts downstream to prepare government and civil society in their respective sectors to take advantage of the opportunities and mitigate the risks of AI on their specific areas of concern.

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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. A 2019 report from a government study found “false positives to be between 2 and 5 times higher in women than men.”

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The State of Prison Reform: A Conversation with Nazgol Ghandnoosh

NonProfit Quarterly

In this interview with NPQ , The Sentencing Project’s codirector of research, Nazgol Ghandnoosh, discusses the series, particularly the last installment, which examines how mass incarceration deepens inequality and harms public safety. That hasn’t become law, but that’s the momentum that’s happening around that issue.

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Equity in Employment: A Vital Step Toward Dismantling Structural Racism in Brazil

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Almeida defines structural racism as a broadening of the notion of institutional racism, and argues that institutions are only the materialization of a social structure or a means of socialization whose components include racism. And while unemployment plagues 11.3 Wages reflect the same disparity.