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Building Boundaries in Love for Equity and Justice: An AI Manifesto

NonProfit Quarterly

We Must Build Parameters to Protect People from AI Creators and AI Creators from Themselves In the rush to lead the global AI race, it can be tempting to prioritize innovation, speed, and profit without pausing to consider the profound ethical, societal, and human consequences. Few Industries Are Immune., 4 (December 2017): 690700.

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From HeLa Cells to Digital Health: Navigating the Promises and Pitfalls of Modern Clinical Research

NonProfit Quarterly

35 The quality of ethnicity data can be affected by miscoding, perceived importance, and biased interpretation. 37 For example, individuals may choose anonymity regarding their ethnicity, or healthcare professionals may interpret it inaccurately, deepening health disparities.

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Appeals Court Rules Funding Process A Contract, Not A Grant

The NonProfit Times

In granting standing, Circuit Judge Kevin Newsom, part of a two-judge majority held “Although Fearless will presumably need to change its contest rules to bring itself into compliance with § 1981, that burden pales in comparison to the interest in rooting out race discrimination in all its forms. That is not enough for standing.”

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Closing the Middle Skills Gap in Postsecondary Education

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This includes millions of jobs in IT , health , the manufacturing and skilled trade sectors , and the army of electricians needed to fully embrace renewables. Second, over half of all US jobs are now “middle skill” positions, requiring more than a high school diploma but less than a four-year college degree.

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Equity in The Balance: Catalyst Winners On DEI Tools To Change Work Culture

Fundraising Leadership

The first year of COVID, Pfizer manufactured 3 billion doses of the vaccine, and manufactures 200 million each year since. We are looking at the experiences of marginalized racial and ethnic groups,” Ohm says. The second myth is that income is the primary determinant of health outcomes, when race matters.

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Recentering Philanthropy toward Social Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

The one that really stood out to me was that almost every high-net-worth individual or donor of color you spoke with experienced racial and ethnic bias, and it influenced them to want to fund systemic change but they did not know how to effect the changes they wanted to see. And so, in an interview I read, you were talking about this.