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. …
Centering Equity in Collective Impact - Stanford Social Innovation …
WEBHow Equity Transforms Collective Impact. Centering equity alters the way practitioners implement collective impact. Consider the collective impact initiative Chattanooga 2.0, which launched in 2016 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and works to ensure that all children and youth receive a quality education and promising career opportunities.
The Science of What Makes People Care (SSIR)
WEBAug 16, 2018 · On March 10, 1748, John Newton, a 22-year-old English seaman who had worked in the slave trade, was traveling home on a merchant ship after a series of misadventures, including being captured and enslaved in Sierra Leone. On that day, a violent storm struck just off the coast of Donegal, Ireland. Rocks ripped a hole in the side of the ship, and ...
How NGOs Can Work With Governments to Build Partnerships …
WEBSep 22, 2020 · At Integrate Health, we have learned a few key lessons, often the hard way, over the past five years of working to build real partnership with government. 1. Center the voice of government. The literature on scale through public sector “adoption” tends to disproportionately focus on NGOs, positioning governments as the passive recipients of ...
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 ...
Strengthen Media Literacy to Win the Fight Against Misinformation
WEBMar 18, 2021 · The deliberate or unintentional spread of misinformation, despite capturing widespread public attention, remains as rampant as ever, showing up recently in the form of false claims about COVID-19 vaccines, the Capitol riot, and many other topics.This “infodemic” is polarizing politics, endangering communities, weakening institutions, and leaving people unsure what to believe or whom to trust.
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 ...
Events - Stanford Social Innovation Review
WEBMarch 22-24, 2022 100% Online Convening. Join Stanford Social Innovation Review —the leading global publication on social change theory and practice—as we bring together leaders from nonprofit organizations, philanthropy, academia and research, business, and government from around the world. Over the course of three half days, we will ...