Can Machine Learning Double Your Social Impact?
A look at what it takes to successfully deploy machine learning tools for social good and the most exciting opportunities ahead.
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Living on the Edge
It’s time for socially responsible business leaders to pay higher wages and offer better benefits.
Housecleaning With Benefits
Alia, the new online benefits tool from National Domestic Workers Alliance, helps house cleaners accrue contributions from their clients to purchase insurance and receive paid time off.
A New Plastic Alternative
Solubag’s founders want to emulate the feel of single-use plastic bags while leaving no trace.
Forest Restoration for Fuel
Supported by the nonprofit US Endowment for Forestry & Communities, Restoration Fuels will turn wood scraps into a substitute for coal, potentially providing energy, jobs, and even environmental benefits.
Life Preservers at Sea
Proactiva Open Arms’ greatest threat to its rescue mission may not be the rough Mediterranean seas but European governments fearful of migrants seeking refuge in their countries.
The New Practice of Public Problem Solving
A new class of innovators is advancing the public good by figuring out what people actually need and then testing, improving, and scaling solutions that may already be out there. Here are the four elements of their method.
End Bloated Salaries in the Nonprofit Sector
Taxpayers should not have to subsidize excessive pay for executives at charities meant to serve the public good.
Empathy Through Service
Programs like Teach for America can help participants take on the perspectives of those they seek to help.
Review
Social Insecurity
Katherine Newman’s Downhill From Here challenges current economic thinking by arguing that the crisis in retirement security is caused by a flawed system, not flawed humans.