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Harnessing the Power of AI for Positive Impact: A Conversation with Juan Lavista Ferres

NonProfit Quarterly

If you have a thousand people who take out a loan, knowing their race or ethnicity will tell you very little about who will repay the loan. You can observe income and you can observe demographic characteristics like race. And because disposable income varies by race, it could be used as an indicator of who will repay the loan.

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20 Leaders Selected for 2023 Advancing Racial Equity on Nonprofit Boards Fellowship

NonProfit Leadership Center

I recognize the systemic injustices and disparities faced and seek to address them through collaboration, learning, sharing and strategic decision-making.” Their race or ethnicity have unjustly served as roadblocks in their careers due to the inequitable systems that continue to impact our society today.

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Dismantling Bias: Toward Ethical and Inclusive Health Innovation

NonProfit Quarterly

Yet, innovative health products have caused BIPOC and other vulnerable groups harm—such as pulse oximeters that fail to accurately detect blood oxygen levels in people with darker skin tones and AI tools that make decisions that systematically disadvantage certain groups of people.

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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. Workers deserve to benefit from the productivity gains AI offers.

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Empowering Community Voices: The Strategic Advantage of Nonprofit Advisory Committees

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Instead, they serve as partners in your work, representing the community you serve and even boosting the productivity of your workforce. Appropriately using your advisory committee’s expertise means that when you are creating your advisory committee, you should consider what new resource/s or product/s your organization is putting together.

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In Search of Inclusive Social Entrepreneurship

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It is the attitudes and skills that enable individuals to use their competencies and become more productive and efficient. It is also about gender, race, and prejudices across society. Ethnic Markers and Crisis Impact Racial distinction speaks loud and clear to most of the Black population in Brazil.

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Uprooting Oppressive Values in Social Change Work through Emotional Intelligence

NonProfit Quarterly

While these internal rifts focus mostly on race and gender, there is also a generational divide at play, making challenges even more complicated to make sense of and discuss. Our decisions can become less inclusive, less equitable, less collaborative. We all have intersecting identities (gender, ethnicity, race, age, religion, etc.)

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