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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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Can Labor Save Higher Education as a Public Good?

NonProfit Quarterly

They include a spate of police actions on campuses , anti-DEI and anti-tenure legislation, academic freedom lawsuits , weaponization of accreditation , and political tests for everything from curriculum to top institutional leadership. Colleges and universities depend critically on the labor power of all who work in them.

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Why Common Core Will Fail

Ken Goldstein

The problem wasn''t that she or her students didn''t have access to uniform, national curriculum standards. Ask the kids dropping out from either school if the lack of unified national curriculum standards was at fault. When she tied the assignment to their desires and interests - to their passions - 85% turned it in.

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Mapping the Landscape of AI-Powered Nonprofits

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It can be hard for us to see how new technologies will ultimately be used. Learning Equality is a global education nonprofit that aligns large libraries of education content to a given country’s curriculum standards. Khanmigo , Khan Academy’s free, AI-powered teaching assistant, aims to offer subject matter experts to all students.

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Leveraging AI in Social Work: A Pathway to Empowering Vulnerable Populations

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

The intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and social work is guiding a new era of technological transformation, promising to revolutionize how social services are delivered to the most vulnerable sectors of society. The Future of AI in Social Work The future of AI in social work is full of potential.

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Listening to teachers to support students impacted by COVID-19 

Candid

Data shows that when teachers can select resources individualized to their students, they can teach more effectively and feel empowered in their expertise, making them more likely to stay in the profession. Nonprofits and philanthropy can provide direct targeted support for these efforts.

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Thank Heaven For 11: Take The Lead Celebrates 11 Years Working Toward Mission of Equity

Fundraising Leadership

This course will teach you the specific thought processes and skills to identify and channel your inner strength and power, Feldt says. We do this work and offer this course because you deserve the equal pay, positions, and power of your highest intentions. You already have more power than you might realize.