Arc 1 and 2
- Techler
- Nov 8, 2018
- 3 min read
Updated: Nov 12, 2018
Arc 2: Non-tech philanthropic efforts from companies (Salesforce, Lyft, Microsoft)
also: What companies are actually doing to promote diversity in their workplaces
SF Chronicle
Proposition C, the November ballot measure that would tax the biggest businesses in San Francisco to raise as much as $300 million for homeless programs
The money would, among other things, provide housing for 5,000 people, pump as much as $75 million into mental health programs and create 1,000 new shelter beds.
One side, led by the city Chamber of Commerce, says suddenly infusing hundreds of millions of dollars into indigence programs would be fiscally irresponsible and would mostly just attract more homeless people to the city.
Mayor London Breed - “I do not believe doubling what we spend on homelessness without new accountability, when we don’t even spend what we have now efficiently, is good government. I have to think about how this will affect our entire economy, including retail businesses, like grocery stores, auto dealers, and department stores, and manufacturing jobs.”
Also has “commitment to cut youth homelessness in half by 2022.”
People can’t be too excited to help out either
You really have to consider both the effects of in-action and action
Fixing this problems isn’t going to be money and shaming other people for not caring enough
It may attract more homeless people
It’s not a binary of do you care about homeless people or not…
Anubis Daugherty
He’s now a member of Larkin Street’s Youth Advisory Board, which gives him a stipend of $170 a week. He also receives a Supplemental Security Income check because of his bipolar diagnosis, which he said is getting better with treatment.
He’s interning — unpaid — in Mandelman’s office two days a week, greeting constituents and answering phones. He’s also going to City College and is debating between being a social worker and a paramedic.
Larkin Street’s Pathways program - 45,000 youth are without a safe place to sleep every night in this country
20 percent of those found homeless in San Francisco’s last biannual count were unaccompanied youth younger than 25.
“We don’t need to reinvent the wheel — we just need more of what we’re doing.”
Lyft is also working with Voto Latino — whose co-founder Rosario Dawson has urged voters to choose Democrats to combat Trump's immigration policies — as well as nonprofit organizations that help blind people and student veterans to distribute discount codes and identify where free rides are needed. Lyft's efforts have been promoted on social media by celebrities such as actor Samuel Jackson, another Trump critic.
Uber is offering $10 off rides to the polls across the country and added a feature in its app that helps customers find their polling stations by typing in a home address.
Saw that not having transportation was why people weren’t voting and fixed the problem
Lyft using social work to differentiate themselves from uber competition
This is good these days because when companies are unethical they are exposed (people’s stories are heard through media)
Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's biggest private philanthropy organization
"In the way that a personal computer is sort of self contained, not a gigantic thing, we can do this chemical processing at the household level," he said.
Relates it to terms he understands (starting microsoft)
He wants there to be trade and have the parts made in different countries that are good at making those parts
Unprocessed waste leads to most of the diarrheal diseases
There’s a bunch of different approached - competition
His philanthropy enables individuals with good ideas to focus on using their skills to help people
Slack diversity and inclusion https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/04/how-slack-got-ahead-in-diversity/558806/
At Slack, the absence of a single diversity leader seems to signal that diversity and inclusion aren’t standalone missions, to be shunted off to a designated specialist, but are rather intertwined with the company's overall strategy.
Social good should be a company wide mission, not an afterthought
They’re involving their employees in diversity conversations
Everyone takes responsibility
Stereotype threat: “ Interpersonal phenomena like stereotype threat, in which people from stigmatized groups spend mental energy grappling with negative stereotypes about those groups, can lead women and minorities with the same skills to perform more poorly”
They recognize that some people have privilege in certain situations and others don’t
Whiteboard interviews -> blind code review
“It’s a huge competitive advantage to be empathetic,” Grace told me. “Candidates know that the company is excited to accommodate them.”
Redefining merit: Interviewers may inadvertently favor candidates who resemble themselves, and if criteria for a job are ambiguous, interviewers may mentally rejigger those criteria to fit whatever a favored candidate has.
having a diverse workforce is a competitive advantage that drives productivity and profits as companies sell their products and services to a broad population.
Unicorn = privately held startup valued at over 1 billion
47 percent of millennials want to work at diverse companies, a 2017 research report by the Institute for Public Relations revealed.
Companies like Apple, Google ect actually have improved diversity
There is a “fierce talent war” so companies want to reach out to as many ppl as possible
Business is a long-term game
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