Human Rights
The Concrete Ceiling
Despite increased dialogue around racial and gender bias and discrimination, women of color struggle to advance in their careers due to the rigidity of unjust systems.
Tag: Diversity Equity Inclusion DEI
Technology
When Good Algorithms Go Sexist: Why and How to Advance AI Gender Equity
Seven actions social change leaders and machine learning developers can take to build gender-smart artificial intelligence for a more just world.
Impact Investing
The Next 10 Years of Impact Investment
To get an idea of where impact investment might be headed over the next decade, the authors examine where the field has been in three areas that play an outsized role in its goals and practices.
Design Thinking
Redesigning DEI
Decolonize Design offers an alternative framework grounded in belonging, dignity, and justice that seeks to abolish assimilation and promotes taking responsibility to challenge and confront racism and anti-Blackness head-on.
Leadership
Navigating Race and New Leadership in a Time of Upheaval
Leaders of color who succeed white founders face a unique set of challenges and bring new benefits, particularly in a time of widespread cultural and social crises. Part of an in-depth series on founder succession.
Education
Science’s Diversity Problem
Minority and women researchers have more novel ideas, but they are less likely to be adopted by the scientific mainstream.
Podcast
sponsored
African American Philanthropy: A Culture of Generosity
If nonprofits and financial advisors are serious about working with African American communities, they must commit to diversity and inclusion across their organizations, and dedicate the resources to identify, solicit, and steward Black donors on their own terms. SSIR publisher Michael Voss speaks with Tyrone Freeman at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University and Stasia Washington at First Foundation Advisors. A sponsored podcast developed with the support of Schwab Charitable.
Nonprofits & NGOs
New Year’s Resolutions for Leaders of Social Change
A list of SSIR articles to help your team define and achieve its goals for doing better in 2020.
Human Rights
How Reverse Mentoring Can Lead to More Equitable Workplaces
In response to a July 16 article about improving organizations' DEI efforts by reimagining the roles of mentor and mentee, SSIR reader Yen Ooi wrote that “calling it 'reverse mentoring' might set out the wrong impression in the relationship to start with.” What do you think? This is the final of 10 articles in a special DEI series.
Human Rights
Reimagining the Internship to Promote Racial Equity
DEI efforts should develop and maximize the potential impact of this important but often overlooked position. This is the ninth of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.