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

NonProfit Quarterly

It calls for AI that is designed explicitly to dismantle systemic inequities and address the social ills caused by historical and present-day injustices. These developersengineers, data scientists, and tech leaderscan fall victim to the pressure to be the first and fastest, driven by profit motives and competitive market forces.

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Unlocking the Power of Data Refineries for Social Impact

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Social progress, on the other hand, shows a very different picture. What explains this massive split between the corporate and the social sectors? Some refer to this as the “ data divide ”—the increasing gap between the use of data to maximize profit and the use of data to solve social problems.

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Why Artisans Are Building an Alternative to Etsy

NonProfit Quarterly

Business publications once celebrated how the internet helps artisans thrive. Artisans had few outlets for selling their creations beyond brick-and-mortar retail stores, galleries, and craft fairs, each taking their cut with high commissions while offering limited access to customers. Things went from bad to worse in 2015.

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Movements Are Leading the Way: Reenvisioning and Redesigning Laws and Governance for a Just Energy Utility Transition

NonProfit Quarterly

7 Legislators and regulators often allocate public dollars for clean energy technologies through partial incentives, rebates, or tax incentives. The result is that public funding will largely benefit wealthier households. 8 This system of publicly regulated monopoly utilities is still with us today.

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The Great Awakening, and Workers’ Fight to Stay Woke

NonProfit Quarterly

2 Democracy is not just a system of political practices; it must be applied to participation and decision-making in all aspects of our economic lives as well. Both aim to socialize the risks of operating a business while limiting the profitable rewards among a select few. They may say, “I am a woman,” or “I am Black,” or “I am Muslim.”

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Africa, Colonialism, and the Paradox of International Aid

NonProfit Quarterly

Since it isn’t, the public sector steps in to nudge the market. Mission 300 aims to address these challenges by leveraging both public and private capital to invest in renewable-energy infrastructure. Subordinated debt, where public lenders agree to be repaid after private lenders. Why hasn’t electrification happened already?