Stopping Child Porn - Stanford Social Innovation Review
WEBStopping Child Porn. Computer imaging technology gets put to work to fight child porn fast—five-millisecond-fast. Not so long ago, those who trafficked in pornographic images of children kept to the shadows, operating their nefarious business far from mainstream channels. Then along came the Internet. The advent of instant publishing and file ...
AI’s Impact on Jobs and Work Is a Choice Between Two Futures
WEBOct 25, 2023 · Choosing AI’s Impact on the Future of Work. Rapid advances in AI threaten to eliminate many jobs, but there are still two distinct paths this AI revolution could take. In November 2022, OpenAI grabbed headlines by releasing ChatGPT, and “generative AI” became a term used in households around the world. …
What Is Community Anyway? - Stanford Social Innovation Review
WEBMay 12, 2015 · David M. Chavis, Ph.D. (@chavispower) is the Principal Associate and CEO of Community Science and is internationally recognized for his work in the implementation, support, and evaluation of community and systems change initiatives.The primary focus of his work has been the relationship between community development and the prevention of poverty, violence, substance abuse, and other social ...
Community Engagement Matters (Now More Than Ever)
WEBIn October 2010, three men—Chris Christie, governor of New Jersey; Cory Booker, who was then mayor of Newark, N.J.; and Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook—appeared together on The Oprah Winfrey Show to announce an ambitious reform plan for Newark Public Schools. On the show, Zuckerberg pledged a $100 million matching grant to support the goal of making Newark a model for how to ...
What the Heck Does ‘Equity’ Mean? - Stanford Social Innovation …
WEBSep 15, 2016 · The term “equity” is spreading like wildfire in some philanthropic circles. It is showing up more and more in organizations’ mission and values statements. It is making its way into the titles of conferences, plenary and breakout sessions, and meetings at the national, state, and local levels. At a recent gathering of organizations ...
How NGOs Can Work With Governments to Build Partnerships …
WEBSep 22, 2020 · At Integrate Health, we have learned a few key lessons, often the hard way, over the past five years of working to build real partnership with government. 1. Center the voice of government. The literature on scale through public sector “adoption” tends to disproportionately focus on NGOs, positioning governments as the passive recipients of ...
Mental Health and Social Change Are Inseparable
WEBMay 15, 2023 · Mental health has become a central topic of discussion as reports of depression, anxiety, and other mental health conditions continue to increase in the United States and globally.Government, media, corporations, academic institutions, and nonprofits have all made large, though insufficient, commitments to address alarming rates of mental health distress and deaths of despair like drug ...
The Bias of ‘Professionalism’ Standards
WEBJun 4, 2019 · The standards of professionalism, according to American grassroots organizer-scholars Tema Okun and Keith Jones, are heavily defined by white supremacy culture—or the systemic, institutionalized centering of whiteness. In the workplace, white supremacy culture explicitly and implicitly privileges whiteness and discriminates against non-Western and non-white professionalism standards related ...
Ten Nonprofit Funding Models - Stanford Social Innovation Review
WEBMar 16, 2009 · William Landes Foster is a partner at the Bridgespan Group, where he advises direct service nonprofits and foundations and leads research on social sector funding. He is a coauthor of “Should Nonprofits Seek Profits?” (Harvard Business Review, February 2005), “How Nonprofits Get Really Big” (Stanford Social Innovation Review, spring 2007), and “Money to Grow On” (Stanford Social ...
Learning Progressions: Road Maps for 21st-Century …
WEBApr 24, 2017 · Learning progressions describe typical sequences of learning in specific areas or disciplines. A familiar parallel would be a curriculum that is designed to help a student learn about a particular subject over the course of several grades. In a similar fashion, teachers can use learning progressions as road maps to guide their instruction.