Stanford Social Innovation Review: Informing and Inspiring …
By Christian Wabnitz 1. Multilateral development banks and humanitarian non-governmental organizations have mostly ignored each other while working to improve lives. But with poverty increasingly concentrated in conflict-affected countries, changes are needed to provide a better collective response. Excerpt.
AI’s Impact on Jobs and Work Is a Choice Between Two Futures
Oct 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. According to Open AI CEO Sam Altman ...
Increasing Voter Turnout: What, If Anything, Can Be Done?
Voters age 65 and older still turn out at a rate almost 30 percentage points higher than 18- to 24-year-olds. The turnout rate among those earning more than $100,000 to $150,000 per year remains 30 to 50 percentage points higher than the rate for those earning less than $20,000. So, what can be done to improve the representativeness of the ...
The Bias of ‘Professionalism’ Standards
Jun 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 ...
Nonprofit Finances Now - Stanford Social Innovation Review
Jan 12, 2023 · Nonprofit finances in the United States were relatively strong at the beginning of 2022, largely as a result of government and foundations stepping up their support of nonprofits during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, inflation, economic volatility, increasing demand for services, and a reversion to pre-COVID funding practices indicate that ...
Fall 2024 - Stanford Social Innovation Review
Fall 2024. Volume 22, Number 4. Read about how a bipartisan 20-year campaign boosted US high school graduation rates, how US public education can serve democracy by preparing students to become better citizens, how climate alliances can help business leaders push their industries to adopt more ambitious sustainability goals, how the world’s ...
Healing Trauma in Systems Opens Up New Pathways to Social …
Feb 12, 2024 · Creating spaces for healing can nudge our traumatized and traumatizing systems toward systems of compassion and care. Collectively surfacing and dealing with trauma within organizations and across systems can repair relationships and restore the flow of ideas, leading to new ways of working and relating to each other.
The Power of Proximity: Co-Locating Childcare and Eldercare …
Apr 5, 2021 · 1. Increase Awareness of the Benefits of Shared Sites. Only 26 percent of Americans are aware of places in their community that care for children and older adults together. Introducing more people to the concept and highlighting its benefits—for younger and older adults, and those in between—will lead more people to advocate for and invest ...
Centering Racial Justice in the Fight for Housing Justice
Oct 6, 2022 · Centering Racial Justice in the Fight for Housing Justice. How a national funder collaborative is empowering communities, expanding access to housing in BIPOC neighborhoods, and changing policies, narratives, and systems that perpetuate racial injustice. Homeownership is considered the American dream, but for millions of people who are Black ...
The Struggle to Overcome Racism - Stanford Social Innovation …
The Struggle to Overcome Racism. The killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers has ignited protests and focused the national discourse on institutional racism and how to eradicate it. SSIR 's editors have assembled a list of resources to help leaders of social change and activists trying to put an end to this intractable American ...