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AI and Racial Justice: Navigating the Dual Impact on Marginalized Communities

NonProfit Quarterly

It reaches into healthcare, finance, justice, education, and public policy, promising to streamline and elevate. that favored names on resumes associated with White identities over those associated with Black identities. Facial recognition technologystruggles to accurately identify Black and Brown faces.

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Monitoring Inequality: The Case for Widening Access to Innovations in Diabetes Management

NonProfit Quarterly

For many people with diabetes, particularly those living below the poverty line, the cost of CGMs makes them unattainable. Advocating for Change Public policy solutions are necessary to narrow the healthcare gap. In the United States, the prevalence of diabetes is highest among low-income populations.

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Democracy in Peril: In South Africa, Will Philanthropy Back Economic Justice?

NonProfit Quarterly

As the Independent Philanthropy Association South Africa (IPASA) stated, “committed and knowledgeable philanthropists can make a meaningful impact and facilitate change for the better in South Africa.” percent of the country’s 63 million people living in poverty, gross domestic product growth that slowed to 0.6 With an estimated 55.5

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Puerto Rican Advocates Pursue Community Control of Renewable Energy

NonProfit Quarterly

Public Policy: A Hit and a Miss Are the lessons of Hurricanes Maria and Fiona being taken to heart? Officially, it is now public policy in Puerto Rico to move to 100 percent renewable power by 2050 (with intermediary goals of 40 percent renewable power by 2025—that is, a year from now—and 60 percent by 2040).

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Locked Out: The Myth of the Black Middle Class

NonProfit Quarterly

Ella Baker Center’s 2015 Who Pays report, which examines the financial and emotional costs to family members with incarcerated loved ones, shows that 63 percent of court related costs associated with conviction were paid for by family members on the outside—83 percent of whom were women.

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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

Often, the very same nonprofit that is advocating for social justice policy may pay its own workers poverty-level wages. Worker-owned co-ops and benefit corporations are additional public policy frameworks for a just economy. Sometimes, nonprofits advance economic justice; sometimes, they are part of the problem.

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Leading Together for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Leaders of systems change need to be intentional about making the risks and responsibilities associated with change collective and mutual, rather than individual. Take the Center for Law and Social Policy , a nonprofit committed to reducing poverty and increasing economic opportunity.