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Navigating Climate Justice: Empowering BIPOC Youth with Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing

NonProfit Quarterly

2 Despite these risk disparities, there is a significant underrepresentation of individuals from these communities in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—fields that design and use tools to understand, predict, and mitigate the impacts of climate change.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Ultimately, AI, like all technologies, is a tool that reflects the processes used to develop and deploy it. 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.

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4 free ways to access Candid’s demographic data 

Candid

To date, over 55,000 nonprofits have shared some information on their staffs’ and board members’ race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability status, through their Candid profile. Here are the four solutions the Candid tech team built to suit our various peers, partners, and collaborators’ needs.

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Dismantling Bias: Toward Ethical and Inclusive Health Innovation

NonProfit Quarterly

As organizations, networks, and individuals sought solutions, a movement to address inequality through technological innovation started gaining momentum. Understanding the cruel history behind many of the world’s leading medical innovations is a stark reminder that technology is not made out of thin air.

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Facial Recognition Technology’s Enduring Threat to Civil Liberties

NonProfit Quarterly

Not only has AI forever altered the technological landscape, but it also carries monumental and potentially corrosive impacts on the economic, political, and interpersonal terrain that makes up our everyday lives. Among the most recent and rapid developments of AI is facial recognition technology.

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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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Mastering Nonprofit Board Recruitment: A Strategic Guide for Executive Directors

Bloomerang

Adopt technologies that simplify collaboration and enhance communication , like board portals or other real-time tools. Collaborate with professional associations, industry groups, and affinity networks relevant to your organization’s mission and sector. Foster a collaborative culture. Promote continuous learning.