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

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Dall-E by OpenAI Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? However, health innovation, when narrowly defined as the application of technologies, often overlooks the broader socioeconomic contexts in which it is deployed.

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Strengthening communities by supporting the nonprofit workforce 

Candid

We nonprofit workers focus our attention on families who have trouble affording safe housing, enough food, quality child care and health care, reliable transportation, and technology. In 2022, 48% owned their homes, only 4% had any investment income, 25% were covered by public health insurance, and 10% had no coverage at all.

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AI and Racial Justice: Navigating the Dual Impact on Marginalized Communities

NonProfit Quarterly

Take facial recognition technology , for instance. Developed using data that rarely represent humans full diversity, this technology struggles to accurately identify Black and Brown faces. Here, nonprofit leaders can be the bridge, ensuring that technology amplifies marginalized voices and fosters innovation that truly serves.

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Minding the Gaps: Neuroethics, AI, and Depression

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Dall-E by OpenAI Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? Neuroscience, broadly, deals with the nervous system and the brain, including mental health. 10 Only 35.1 10 Only 35.1 10 Only 35.1 10 Only 35.1

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Commentary: The Full Potential Of The Social Sector  

The NonProfit Times

What if those funders stipulated that they could not spend a penny covering their overhead costs or investing in technology or talent? 22% of those workers are living below or just above the poverty line. Now imagine if they had been constrained by funding streams that stipulate how, when and where to spend money.

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How Indigenous Wisdom Can Support Youth Mental Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This is good news for our youth, many of whom experience mental health challenges rooted in intergenerational trauma, poverty, and social alienation. For these wisdom-keepers, creating environments that nurture health and healing calls for what they term “rampant relationality.”

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Nothing About Us Without Us: Invest in Disabled Leaders to Advance Equitable Technology for Everyone

NonProfit Quarterly

People with disabilities are leading policy change, technology development, and workplace evolution. The newly launched Disability x Tech Fund , which focuses on technology justice, offers a framework for how we can collectively resource these leaders. But space needs to be made. Hands need to reach out. People need to be lifted up.”