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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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The Double-Edged Sword of Health Innovations: Navigating the Intersection of Technology and Equity in Nigeria

NonProfit Quarterly

Emerging technological innovations in healthcare have the potential to transform public health and healthcare delivery systems, making them more efficient, personalized, and accessible. Emerging Technologies: Potential and Risks Technological innovations are often lauded as a panacea for global health challenges.

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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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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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Precision Medicine Has a Data Equity Problem

NonProfit Quarterly

Advances in DNA sequencing technology are leading to a new understanding of cancer and new ways of diagnosing and treating it that are saving lives. It has led to improved treatments and therapies for rare diseases, which affect 30 million people in the United States and more than 300 to 400 million worldwide.

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Building Boundaries in Love for Equity and Justice: An AI Manifesto

NonProfit Quarterly

When we build AI, we must ask: Who benefits from this technology? Ironically, the technology that promises a more efficient future is also contributing to a great strain on the planets resources. 10 Protecting workers economic security requires policies that guarantee they arent left behind in the technological shift.

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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.