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. …
Strengthen Media Literacy to Win the Fight Against Misinformation
WEBMar 18, 2021 · Technology Strengthen Media Literacy to Win the Fight Against Misinformation . If the world is going to stop deliberate or unintentional misinformation and its insidious effects, we need to radically expand and accelerate our counterattacks, particularly human-centered solutions focused on improving people's media and …
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Science of What Makes People Care (SSIR)
WEBAug 16, 2018 · Principle #2: Communicate in Images. People in the social sector work on complex issues that are fairly abstract: justice, equality, wellness, fairness, and innovation. One of the challenges with these abstract concepts is that they leave space for people to make assumptions about what these terms mean to them.
A Playbook for Designing Social Impact Measurement
WEBDec 21, 2018 · Jonathan R. Zadra (@JonathanZadra) is a director at the Sorenson Impact Center over data, policy, and performance innovation. He completed master’s and doctoral degrees in cognitive psychology at the University of Virginia and a bachelor’s degree at San Diego State University. DOI: 10.48558/et2c-kq59. Tags.
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 ...
How 20 Years of Education Reform Has Created Greater Inequality
WEBJun 18, 2020 · When the latest Program for International Assessment (PISA) results were released in December 2019, many who saw the United States’ ranking continue to stagnate behind its global competitors conceded that the last 20 years and billions of dollars spent on education reform had done essentially nothing. But the rankings don’t tell the whole ...
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