The Cultural and Social Challenges to Slowing the Pandemic in Africa
The coronavirus was slow to make its way to Africa, but it is now there in full force and will be difficult to contain because of certain cultural and social behaviors.
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Four Ways Corporations Can Achieve Authentic Social Impact
How corporate leaders can strike a balance between business success and genuine social impact that also inspires others to act.
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Click Here: Inoculation, Time, and Rent Strikes
In this week's links from SSIR's editors: the race for a coronavirus vaccine, science fiction, the demise of a beloved restaurant, and rent strikes.
How the Social Sector Can Use Natural Language Processing
Uncovering invisible patterns in vast datasets cannot only automate a variety of tasks, freeing up people to do more valuable and creative work that machines can’t do, but provide new kinds of learning.
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Tech and Data That Inform, Inspire, and Involve
The public radio and television station KQED has thrived amid a tumultuous period in the media industry by using technology and data to optimize the delivery of its grassroots journalism and improve relationships with its listeners. Part of a series produced with the support of Salesforce.
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When a Business Goes Digital
An excerpt from The Forever Transaction examines how Under Amour transformed its business by going online.
Crisis and Adaptation for the Public Good
How Tulane University rebuilt from Hurricane Katrina with a renewed commitment to embedding social innovation and community engagement at the core of its mission. Part of Innovating Higher Education for the Greater Good, a new series from SSIR and Ashoka U.
Overcoming the Racial Bias in Philanthropic Funding
Racial bias creeps into all parts of the philanthropic and grantmaking process. The result is that nonprofits led by people of color receive less money than those led by whites, and philanthropy ends up reinforcing the very social ills it says it is trying to overcome.
For a More Equitable America, Understand Race and Racism as Actions We Do and Can Undo
With the coronavirus crisis placing a magnifying lens over the deep inequities in American society, the nation possesses an opportunity to face longstanding injustices that could allow us to go beyond just mourning our collective failures or patching over them with emergency measures.
Three Things Nonprofits Should Prioritize in the Wake of COVID-19
Why organizations need to examine their social impact, economic viability, and capacity to deliver in order to remain relevant and viable both now and into the future.