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| Apr 28, 2026 | TODAY: Feel Good Action & Partners Launch Effort to Support Soon to Be Voters with National Preregistration Day | As young people continue to worry about their future, organizations around the country work to ensure teens know how to exercise their civil rights
SEATTLE, WA, UNITED STATES, April 28, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Today, Feel Good Action (FG... |
| Jan 7, 2025 | Fueling Innovation to Navigate the Wildfire Challenge Ahead | The climate-driven wildfire crisis calls for a comprehensive, cross-sector approach to funding, research, and action.
One glimpse at the August 2024 wildfire incident map of Western North America and one might have thought hal... |
| Dec 8, 2024 | The Hidden Crisis in Higher Education: Underpaid Faculty and Its Impact on Students | In the heart of academia, a silent crisis brews. Non-tenure-track faculty, the backbone of many universities, are often underpaid and overworked. This reality is starkly illustrated at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder), where ... |
| Dec 8, 2024 | The Hidden Crisis in Higher Education: A Call for Change | In the heart of Boulder, Colorado, a storm brews beneath the surface of academia. The University of Colorado Boulder (CU) is a beacon of education, yet its non-tenure-track faculty face a harsh reality. They are the unsung heroes, the backb... |
| Dec 8, 2024 | Editorials | Editorial: When educators are underpaid, it is the students who suffer | According to a recent Camera story, pay for non-tenure-track professors can be as low as $52,000 per year.
That figure may not seem objectively paltry. But in Boulder, the average monthly cost of a one-bedroom apartment is $1,877, according... |
| Aug 14, 2024 | Elon Musk’s xAI defies ‘woke’ censorship with controversial Grok 2 AI release | Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More
Elon Musk’s AI company xAI released its latest language model, Grok 2, on Tuesday, introducing powerful image gen... |
| May 16, 2024 | Over Two Dozen Labor Unions, Civil Rights Groups, and Public Interest Advocates Endorse New York’s BOT Act | (ALBANY, NY) – Today, a coalition of more than two dozen organizations announced support for New York Senate Bill 7623/Assembly Bill A.9315, the Bossware and Oppressive Technologies (BOT) Act. This bill, sponsored by Senator Brad Hoylman-Si... |
| Apr 18, 2024 | Africa: Understanding AI Outputs - Study Shows Pro-Western Cultural Bias in the Way AI Decisions Are Explained | Humans are increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) to inform decisions about our lives. AI is, for instance, helping to make hiring choices and offer medical diagnoses.
If you were affected, you might want an explanation of why an A... |
| Nov 6, 2023 | Black workers could be disproportionately harmed by AI in the workplace, a study says. They are feeling the heat — and trying to fix it. | Black workers may fear being replaced by AI more than White workers due to their fraught history with the technology. FLORENCE LO/Reuters
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| Oct 30, 2023 | Practica AI Chatbot Revolutionizing Workplace Mentorship: Here's How It Works | Quincy Cahilig, Tech Times 30 October 2023, 03:10 pm
The progressive startup Practica believes that artificial intelligence (AI) can mentor an individual, which prompted the development of a unique chatbot.
Established as a marketplace for ... |
| Jul 28, 2023 | Current STEM Diversity Programs and Investments Aren’t Working — It’s Time to Shift Focus | For decades, our country has invested in creating a more diverse STEM workforce by launching efforts that increase the representation of women and people of color in the field. Out-of-school time programs have played a large role, funneling... |
| Jun 30, 2023 | What Will It Take To Educate The Next Generation Of “Leaders With Heart”? | Proponents for affirmative action in higher education in front of the U.S. Supreme Court (Photo by ... [+] Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)Getty Images |
| May 22, 2023 | Why job searches suck right now | Redeem now
When Michael Keach was laid off in January after five years as a senior manager in the customer-service department at Wayfair, he was tentatively optimistic. After all, Keach had been laid off before and had found work again quic... |
| May 19, 2023 | Internet Philanthropy And A New Generation Of Giving In China | Using the "Tencent Charity" mini program to make small donations through mobile payment.Tencent |
| Feb 28, 2023 | Some schools are switching to the 4-day workweek to bring in and keep teachers, but education officials say it's not a 'magic pill' to fix the educator shortage | Districts are weighing the four-day workweek to curb burnout and retain teachers. OLIVIER TOURON/Getty Images
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| Feb 24, 2023 | Africa: Power On - How We Can Supercharge an Equitable Digital Future | From online learning and digital activism to the rapid expansion of high-paying tech jobs, the digital age has generated unprecedented opportunities for the empowerment of women and girls. But advancing technology is also introducing new fo... |
| Feb 23, 2023 | Balancing Leadership And Politics In An ESG World | President and CEO of Clearfield, providing optical-fiber management and connectivity solutions across North America. |
| Feb 17, 2023 | Dynatrace AppEngine puts low-code, data-driven apps into gear | Image: Rafael Henrique/Adobe Stock
Software automation has been on something of a journey. It started with low-code — the ability to harness automated accelerators, reference templates and pre-composed elements of software application devel... |
| Feb 16, 2023 | Sam Bankman-Fried’s Altruism Wasn’t Very Effective | There are three things commonly known about Sam Bankman-Fried. The first is he led one of the biggest derivative cryptocurrency exchanges in the world. The second is he will be tried for eight counts of money laundering, financial and elect... |
| Jan 13, 2023 | NCAT Instructor’s Dress Code Raises Questions About ‘Professional’ Attire | Defining professionalism can be an individual pursuit.getty |
| Dec 23, 2022 | Sam Bankman-Fried's law professor parents have stuck close by their son through the fallout from FTX's collapse. Here's what we know about them. | Sam Bankman-Fried and his mother, Barbara Fried. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images; Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images
Barbara Fried and Joseph Bankman are the parents of FTX cofounder Sam Bankman-Fried.
Fried and Bankman have s... |
| Nov 28, 2022 | Эффективный альтруизм: что стоит за моральной философией аристократов Кремниевой долины | Люди во главе корпораций Кремниевой долины в наши дни всё больше напоминают фараонов древности: они аккумулируют огромное богатство, триллионы долларов в совокупности, огромные ресурсы, которые идут рядом с этим богатством, но главное — вок... |
| Oct 4, 2022 | Daffy.org Pioneers Family Options For Giving – Innovation In Philanthropy And Giving | By: Christos Makridis |
| Sep 29, 2022 | Finding The Ultra In Impact Investing | Jaclyn Foroughi, CFA, CAIA is a lecturer in impact investing at the Stanford GSB, and cofounder of Brazen Impact, LLC. |
| Sep 9, 2022 | Change Takes Time - And The Philanthropy World Needs To Keep Up! | By Leslie Weber for The Opportunity Agenda |
| Jul 25, 2022 | VCs and founders alike say investors should fold reproductive rights into ESG standards | Traditionally, U.S. private market investors who adopted environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) frameworks — the very few thus far — did so to evaluate a potential company or investment on how it approached areas like sustaina... |
| Jul 7, 2022 | How media literacy education in South Africa can help combat fake news | How media literacy education in South Africa can help combat fake news: Image: Adobe stock
Online platforms are replete with examples of false information – from WhatsApp messages punting some miraculous cure for COVID, to social media post... |
| Jul 3, 2022 | 3 Ways To Get To Know Your Employees Better To Drive Engagement | Conversation in modern office studio getty |
| Jul 1, 2022 | DAOs Are the New Way of Impact Work | The Web3 community is, at heart, rooted in profound optimism. The increasing ubiquity of this technology makes it possible to envision a world where everyone is equipped to both survive and thrive.
Essentially, Web3 has become a Schelling P... |
| Jun 30, 2022 | Data Creates Certainty In An Uncertain World | CEO of Qlik, driving the mission to create a data-literate world where organizations tackle their most complex challenges with data. |
| Apr 21, 2022 | Earth Day 2022: Charting the course to a resilient food system with dynamic systems modeling | Anya Gandy is sustainability lead at Inari, based in Boston, Massachusetts, US.
The views expressed in this guest commentary are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect those of AFN.
Earth Day 2022’s theme — ‘invest in our planet’ —... |
| Mar 21, 2022 | Climate tech companies in the spotlight as SEC votes on new ESG disclosure proposal | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
All eyes are on the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is expected to vote on a new set of... |
| Mar 14, 2022 | Blockchain is big in Indonesia, but Tokocrypto wants to make it bigger | BlockchainNewsStartupsTIA Partnership
Samantha Cheh · 14 Mar 2022 · 5 min readBlockchain is big in Indonesia, but Tokocrypto wants to make it bigger
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Cryptocurrency is on the rise in Indonesia. In 2021, crypto trading in ... |
| Mar 14, 2022 | Is booking Airbnbs really the best way to help Ukrainians? | Booking an Airbnb in the middle of a war zone is not the average person’s idea of a good vacation plan. But as the Russian war on Ukraine enters its third week, with more than 2 million Ukrainians having fled the country and nearly that man... |
| Feb 7, 2022 | Systems thinking can help end practices that harm women worldwide | Margo Day Contributor
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Margo Day is the CEO and co-founder of Mekuno Project, a nonprofit dedicated to eliminating the root causes of female genital mutilation and child marriage in Kenya.
It’s been said that many of the wor... |
| Jan 28, 2022 | CausaLens gets $45M for no-code technology that introduces cause and effect into AI decision making | One of the most popular applications of artificial intelligence to date has been to use it to predict things, using algorithms trained with historical data to determine a future outcome. But popularity doesn’t always mean success: Predictiv... |
| Dec 22, 2021 | Global stakeholders should use AI to mitigate impact of heat islands in cities | Shravan Kumar Alavilli Contributor
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Shravan Kumar Alavilli is the director of Client Success at Gramener.
If human societies do nothing, in just a few decades, the planet could warm to levels it hasn’t reached in at least 34... |
| Dec 7, 2021 | Invest in Earth’s biggest problems to save the planet and turn a profit | Champ Suthipongchai Contributor
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Champ Suthipongchai is a co-founder and general partner at Creative Ventures, a method-driven deep tech VC firm investing in startups that address the impact of increasing labor shortages, ri... |
| Dec 1, 2021 | Is Coca Cola’s Shareholder Value Negative? | Impact accounting, by placing dollar values on negative externalities imposed by companies such as Coca Cola, can concentrate hearts and minds of decision makers. Engagement and dialogue with the company, not blanket divestment, is likely t... |
| Nov 10, 2021 | Why the world needs both ESG and impact investing (and how they’re different) | Socially responsible investing. Ethical investing. Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria. Impact investing.
These terms now appear regularly in the media and in investment prospectuses, with interest levels reaching all-time ... |
| Oct 11, 2021 | Joint : Why Breast Cancer Awareness Matters, and How to Get It Done | Why Breast Cancer Awareness Matters, and How to Get It Done
By Martha Michael
If you've been part of an awareness campaign, you've probably donned T-shirts, created social media posts, and maybe even run a 10K to raise money. The first orga... |
| Aug 23, 2021 | How Technology Is Changing the Way Refugees Get to Safety | As Americans are struck by the flurry of images of men, women and children fleeing the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan, the dire needs of refugees are never far from Christopher Mikkelsen's mind.
When the Hancock Park techie and his then-... |
| Jul 27, 2021 | Salesforce com : Impact Fund Sparks Change by Leveling the Playing Field | Quick take:
Salesforce Ventures' $150 million Impact Fund has now invested in 28 companies - 60% of which have a female or underrepresented minority founder or CEO.
Guild Education, a female-founded unicorn, provides a case study for the fu... |
| Jul 14, 2021 | The Future Staple Of Business: Conscious Entrepreneurship | Sustainability Consultant | Business Coach & Educator | Founder of The Academy of Human Potential. |
| Jun 30, 2021 | Samsung Electronics : Let's Listen to the Sustainability Generation | Our Next Generation Employee Resource Group's sole responsibility is to help cultivate the talent of (and also learn from) young professionals across our team at Samsung. Activities from our Next Generation Leaders are often focused on netw... |
| Jun 28, 2021 | Why Do Board Directors And CEOs Need To Value UN Sustainability Goal 5 ? - Achieve Gender Equality And Empower All Women And Girls | In my last blog the fourth UN Sustainability Goal: “Quality Education, ” was explored. This blog reviews a topic that is near and dear to my heart - advancing young women into leadership roles and motivating young girls to build STEM - scie... |
| Jun 23, 2021 | Why I was scared to see the documentary about the fall of the founder of WeWork | June 23, 2021 8 min read
This article was translated from our Spanish edition using AI technologies. Errors may exist due to this process.
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.
As the credits progressed at the end o... |
| Jun 22, 2021 | Advice from a VC: Why creating a sustainable business will put you in front | Sustainability-focused startups are getting back on the radar of many VCs. A quick look at recent CrunchBase data clearly underlines this trend, with total funding volume for sustainability-related companies showing significant growth espec... |
| Mar 23, 2021 | Read CDC’s Nick O’Donohoe and Yasemin Saltuk Lamy in the Stanford Social Innovation Review | Just over 10 years ago, our CEO, Nick O’Donohoe, and Deputy Chief Investment Officer, Yasemin Saltuk Lamy, were leading JP Morgan’s social finance business. Along with their colleague Christina Leijonhufvud – now the CEO of impact verificat... |
| Mar 23, 2021 | Read CDC’s Nick O’Donohoe and Yasemin Saltuk Lamy in the Stanford Social Innovation Review | Just over 10 years ago, our CEO, Nick O’Donohoe, and Deputy Chief Investment Officer, Yasemin Saltuk Lamy, were leading JP Morgan’s social finance business. Along with their colleague Christina Leijonhufvud – now the CEO of impact verificat... |
| Mar 12, 2021 | Did Delaware really ‘Do More’ for people-of-color-led nonprofits during its annual day of giving? | The results are in for Delaware’s annual day of giving — Do More 24 — and the prevailing sentiment is that Delawareans showed up big time for the nonprofit community.
The nearly $2 million haul from this year’s 24-hour giving period, held M... |
| Mar 7, 2021 | Building AI for the Global South | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Harm wrought by AI tends to fall most heavily on ... |
| Mar 7, 2021 | Building AI for the Global South | Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more.
Harm wrought by AI tends to fall most heavily on marginalized communities. In the United States, algorithmic harm may lead to the false arrest of Bla... |
| Feb 23, 2021 | AI researchers detail obstacles to data sharing in Africa | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
AI researchers say data sharing is a key part of ... |
| Feb 23, 2021 | AI researchers detail obstacles to data sharing in Africa | AI researchers say data sharing is a key part of economic growth in Africa but that it faces a number of common obstacles, including the threat of data colonialism. The African data market is expected to grow steadily in the coming years, a... |
| Feb 8, 2021 | 14 Overlooked Areas Businesses Can Make More Efficient | Companies have always been focused on ensuring they are efficient in how their processes work. Even so, both large and small companies may have efficiency problems in some areas. When examining where a business can improve its efficiency, t... |
| Dec 21, 2020 | Philanthropy Must Face A Reckoning On Race In 2021 | Unsplash |
| Dec 21, 2020 | 2020: The Year Of the Edtech Paradox | In many ways, 2020 has been THE year of edtech. Technology experienced a meaningful surge in adoption by schools, districts and parents. The industry saw large capital inflows and more edtech “unicorns” than in any other prior year. Mergers... |
| Dec 10, 2020 | How To Make Diversity And Inclusion Successful As Part Of The War For Talent | A corporate commitment to diversity and inclusion enhances collaboration.getty |
| Dec 8, 2020 | Blockchain. What’s Stored In the Ledger? | In assessing a company claiming that they are revolutionising their industry using blockchain, one must always ask the question: |
| Nov 23, 2020 | The Business Of Radical Collaboration | Emily Bancroft is President of VillageReach, a nonprofit focused on transforming access to quality health care in sub-Saharan Africa. |
| Oct 15, 2020 | Three surprising ways to make Zoom meetings more engaging and personable | Dr Amantha Imber is the founder of behavioural science consultancy Inventium.
Pre-COVID-19, we used to talk about ‘death by PowerPoint’. One of the biggest workplace hazards we are now dealing with is ‘death by Zoom’.
Research has shown tha... |
| Sep 30, 2020 | Coinbase wants to reject politics. It should already know how risky that is. | This is the web version of The Ledger, Fortune’s weekly newsletter covering financial technology and cryptocurrency. Sign up here to get it free in your inbox.
Is it possible to be apolitical in today's America? Coinbase, the largest crypto... |
| Sep 11, 2020 | Varieties Of Capitalism And The Future Of Stakeholder Management | getty |
| Jun 30, 2020 | Make Sure Your Antiracism Efforts Cost You Something | A month on from George Floyd's tragic murder and Amy Cooper's nauseating reveal, we're seeing recent and historical episodes of violent racism get attention; public protest and pressure wins some battles and lose others; and Black-authored ... |
| Jun 18, 2020 | Unilever’s Climate Plan: Emissions From Supply Chain And Consumers Are The Real Challenge | Cans of Dove deodorant, produced by Unilever Plc.sit on a shelf at a supermarket in London, U.K., on ... [+] Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010. Unilever won European Union approval to buy Sara Lee Corp.'s shower-gel and European detergents business ... |
| Feb 28, 2020 | Minority entrepreneurship is the antidote to persistent poverty | It is well known that 26% of Philadelphians live in poverty — a persistent challenge that perpetuates our status as the United States’ poorest large city.
After leading The Enterprise Center for 27 years, my experience has taught me that al... |
| Feb 7, 2020 | Helping Grads Tell Their Story: The Case For Extended Transcripts | Extended high school transcripts contain much more than a record of grades.IMS Global |
| Nov 19, 2019 | Build trust with remote users to get qualitative feedback | Alex Gold Contributor
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Alex Gold is co-founder of Myia, an intelligent health platform employing novel biometric data to predict and prevent costly medical events. Previously, Alex was Venture Partner at BCG Digital Ventures... |
| Oct 21, 2019 | On the importance of measurement in impact investing | Policymakers, philanthropists, social entrepreneurs, and impact investors frequently comment that we need evidence-based strategies to tackle social and environmental challenges effectively.
The call for more thoughtful evidence-use has rec... |
| Aug 16, 2019 | CLLCTIVLY is powering a day of giving for Black-led orgs in the Baltimore area | Think of it as a localized, community-focused version of Giving Tuesday.
On Thursday, Aug. 22, Baltimore’s CLLCTIVLY is providing a platform to raise money for Black-led community organizations in the Greater Baltimore area.
The day of givi... |
| Aug 7, 2019 | The 4IR Risks Leaving Women Behind | Industry 4.0 also known as a 4th Industrial Revolution. urbans / Shutterstock.com |
| Aug 7, 2019 | The 4IR Risks Leaving Women Behind | Industry 4.0 also known as a 4th Industrial Revolution. urbans / Shutterstock.com
by Rachel Adams
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is, ostensibly, upon us. The term was coined in 2016 by Klaus Schwab, the founder and executive chairman of t... |
| Sep 6, 2018 | Developing Responses to Cyber-Enabled Information Warfare and Influence Operations | This article defines information warfare and influence operations as the deliberate use of information by one party on an adversary population to confuse, mislead and ultimately influence the actions that the targeted population makes. Info... |
| Dec 12, 2016 | An unprecedented uplift in learning outcomes among marginalized girls | An unprecedented uplift in learning outcomes among marginalized girls
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Results from an extensive and innovative education intervention delivered by Camfed in Africa, funded by the UK Department for International Development (DfID)... |
| Dec 6, 2016 | 9 websites that help make ideas happen | At Ideas Hoist and Product Hoist, we love everything related to technology, education and innovation. And we know you love it too, that’s why we have grabbed a handful of awesome websites that are sure to excite your ingenious minds. Tools ... |
| Oct 7, 2016 | It takes more than a village | Melissa Jun Rowley Contributor
Melissa Jun Rowley is a journalist, entrepreneur and activist focused on the intersection of storytelling, technology and social justice. As the founder and CEO of Humanise, Inc., she is developing The Toolbox... |
| Aug 14, 2016 | Unintended Consequences: How Gates Foundation Money Steered Uversity Into Trouble | This article, “Unintended Consequences,” was first published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives 4.0 International License.
Jamie Glenn, chief executive of a once-hot social media sta... |
| May 31, 2016 | Is civic technology the killer app for democracy? | Lorelei Kelly Contributor
Lorelei Kelly leads the Resilient Democracy Coalition, a group working to make sure Congress succeeds in the Information Age.
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Congress needs your input (but don’t call it crowdsourcin... |
| Apr 28, 2016 | Do Nigeria’s big corporate fines signal the end of ‘anything goes’ in Africa? | |
| Apr 14, 2016 | Three ways to build innovation into your organisation | By Rob Livingstone
Despite the explosive rate of innovation transforming our world, how established organisations innovate themselves is another matter altogether.
The string of defunct or struggling organisations such as Kodak, Nokia, Bloc... |
| Mar 24, 2016 | Blended Capital: What Happens When Companies Tap Both VCs and Foundations For Funding? | It takes a village to raise a successful education technology company—and for that matter, to build an ecosystem for education innovation that creates meaningful, sustainable change in our schools and for our students. But one of the most c... |
| Dec 1, 2015 | Jai Sharma – co-founder of Thread Harvest | website twitter facebook instagram
Jai Sharma started his first social enterprise as a teenager – an online advertising website where visitors could click on advertisements to raise funds for children’s education programs. Although it only ... |
| Aug 18, 2015 | Android One Expands To Six Countries In Africa | Varun Nayar, Tech Times 18 August 2015, 01:08 pm
The number of mobile-first consumers in emerging digital economies has been increasing exponentially, and Africa — labeled the "mobile continent" — is a perfect example. According t... |
| Open Value Foundation y Ship2B apuestan por la financiación presemilla, clave para que las startups superen el valle de la muerte | “El acceso a la financiación es una limitación reconocida para la puesta en marcha de empresas sociales y de impacto […]. Falta un punto intermedio que cubra la falta de capital, las subvenciones insuficientes y en el que la financiación co... |
