Sonal Shah
Exec Dir. @BeeckCenter | Board @CaseFoundation @OxfamAmerica @nff_news | Former @Obama Administration. Co-Founder @IndiCorps | Scaling Social Change. Views own.
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Ushering Government Services into the Digital Age
Our lives intersect with government services in countless ways — giving veterans access to healthcare, caring for children in foster programs, and even hel
Supporting Government Teams to Achieve Transformation Goals in the Digital Age
By Sonal Shah Government services touch our lives daily in countless ways — giving veterans access to healthcare, caring for children in foster programs, providing social security or medicare and even helping us get around using public transit. In...
Beyond Meat warns it may never be profitable in IPO filing
The meat alternative juggernaut just filed its S-1. One problem: It’s hemorrhaging money.
Nationwide, Poverty Concentration Is the Bigger Problem, Not Gentrification
A new report and accompanying map finds extreme gentrification in a few cities, but the dominant trend—particularly in the suburbs—is the concentration of low-income population.
Progressive Capitalism Is Not an Oxymoron
We can save our broken economic system from itself.
The City That Apps Built, or Destroyed
An unprecedented analysis of who is buying San Francisco property
World Education Services Appoints Esther Benjamin as CEO
Sonal Shah
Congrats @WESPicks. You have picked an amazing new CEO with @EstherTBenjamin. Look forward to your ongoing #impact in higher education. #socent
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See who is on @TIME's list of the world’s most influential people #TIME100
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Facebook's role in Brexit -- and the threat to democracy
In an unmissable talk, journalist Carole Cadwalladr digs into one of the most perplexing events in recent times: the UK's super-close 2016 vote to leave the European Union. Tracking the result to a barrage of misleading Facebook ads targeted at...
Sonal Shah
#Tech and Society: Watch this. "Is this what you want? Is this how you want history to remember you? As the handmaidens to authoritarianism?" What is our role?
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The Street Theater Behind Mexico's Landmark Road Safety Law
Mimes and masked wrestlers have pushed the country's lawmakers to consider major national traffic safety legislation.
Click here to support Seventh District Baptist Church Fires St Landry organized by Ruth Jack
Three historically black churches have burned in less than two weeks in one south Louisiana parish, where officials said they had found “suspicious elements” in each case. The officials have not ruled out the possibility of arson, or the possibility...
Witnessing the Fall of Notre-Dame
It survived eight centuries of plague, war, revolution, and the Nazis. How could it be burning?
Five Lies Our Culture Tells
The cultural roots of our political problems.
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Sonal Shah
Looking forward to @davidrooks new book. "The anthropology of the meritocracy is that you are not a soul to be saved but a set of skills to be maximized." Five Lies Our Culture Tells nyti.ms/2Gnk2kh @sherrling @StaciW_DC @LisaGreenHall @EstherTBenjamin @cheryldorsey
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Creating Opportunity for Communities of Color Through Entrepreneurship (SSIR)
Supporting and strengthening small business owners can help increase economic opportunity in communities of color, building family and community wealth.
State of Social Entrepreneurship | Echoing Green
State of Social EntrepreneurshipAt Echoing Green, we know that talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. People all around the world have bold ideas and the enthusiasm to change their communities for the better, but a risk-adverse...
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Sonal Shah
Need to change this. @echoinggreen 2019 State of #socent report: In the US, the 492 organizations led by black founders raised $40 million overall, compared to $61 million raised by the 396 organizations led by white founders. echoinggreen.org/ideas/state-so… echoinggreen.org/ideas/state-so…
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State of Social Entrepreneurship 2019 | Echoing Green
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Sonal Shah
Need to change this. @echoinggreen 2019 State of #socent report: In the US, the 492 organizations led by black founders raised $40 million overall, compared to $61 million raised by the 396 organizations led by white founders. echoinggreen.org/ideas/state-so… echoinggreen.org/ideas/state-so…
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Plan-It Earth
Sonal Shah
Congratulations to @Georgetown's Plan-It Earth ideathon this weekend on the great ideas and #solutions for our greatest #environmental challenges.
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achael/eht-imaging
Imaging, analysis, and simulation software for radio interferometry - achael/eht-imaging
A Charity Accepts Uber Stock as Donations. Then Uses It to Pay Staff Bonuses.
Entrepreneurs who own stakes in private companies can donate some of their equity to Charity: water. The proceeds will eventually be paid out to the nonprofit’s employees.