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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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Minding the Gaps: Neuroethics, AI, and Depression

NonProfit Quarterly

Which path wins out will depend on the datasets and designs of the emerging technologies as well as whether or not robust regulations are put in place to guide the scientists at the helm. 9 In addition, those who are diagnosed often experience more severe and disabling symptoms than those experienced by other races and ethnicities.

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

NonProfit Leadership Center

Last year's 2022 fellows reported a 52% increase in their board governance knowledge and skills after completing the program. This program is an opportunity to immerse myself in comprehensive board governance training, allowing me to be more impactful while doing so in a nonprofit board setting.”

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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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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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Dismantling Bias: Toward Ethical and Inclusive Health Innovation

NonProfit Quarterly

This put pressure on governments, institutions, and other organizations to proactively engage in racial justice reform within healthcare and medicine. As organizations, networks, and individuals sought solutions, a movement to address inequality through technological innovation started gaining momentum.

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