Lisa Witter

Honored that Google.org invited me to their inaugural Impact Summit in Mountain View! As a Google alum (2010-2018), it's exciting to return for this groundbreaking event focused on AI for social impact. Tomorrow I'm looking forward to exploring how nonprofits are leveraging generative AI to tackle pressing issues in education, economic opportunity, climate action, and crisis response. At PolicyEngine, we're using AI to revolutionize policy analysis - explaining tax and benefit programs, summarizing reform impacts, and enhancing datasets for accurate predictions. I recently shared our work at the National Tax Association Spring Symposium, discussing how AI is transforming policy analysis. Check out the slides here: https://lnkd.in/gQBS2hCZ Eager also to connect with the 21 nonprofits from Google.org's first Generative AI Accelerator and learn about their innovative projects, including others in the policy world like The World Bank. The potential for AI to accelerate social progress is tremendous. Can't make it in person? Join the livestream here: https://lnkd.in/gz4qdpEA

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📣 ENERGY ABOUNDS WITH CLIMATEBASE COHORT 6 FELLOWS! 📣 (San Francisco, CA) Chosen from a field of 4,000 applicants, an ambitious collective of optimists, doers, creators, visionaries, disruptors, and explorers journeys through the Climatebase Fellowship, a 12-week educational program and career accelerator, covering Energy, Transportation, Food & Agriculture, Nature-Based Solutions, Corporate Sustainability, Carbon Removal, Circular Economy, Buildings, Cities & Adaptation, and topped off with a Capstone Project. 🌱 = = = 🗓 WEEK 3 - ENERGY How are your energy levels, LinkedIn colleagues?! Fuel cells running low? Tailwind pushing you forward with ease? Cohort 6 Fellows are bouncing around the Climatebase virtual walls with ideas, seeking matches in vision, assessing Capstone Project pitches, and diving into the multi-faceted area of Energy!⚡️ Continued THANKS to: 🎉 Neil Yeoh (Founder, OnePointFive (opf.degree); Climatebase Course Lead) for educating us on Energy (markets, supply, demand, challenges, solutions, renewability, and its link to transportation), 🎉 ALL the Cohort 6 Fellows and teams who are leading and contributing to Capstone Projects, 🎉 Magda Kufrej (she/her) (Founder, Work Ally) for helping job seekers focus their energies regarding transferable skills, and 🎉 Guest speakers (TBA) speaking later today 😉 for sharing their life experience and knowledge! (**Kindly see comments in this original post for 🔗 to their valuable organizations! ⬇️ ) 📌 "With energy, it's very location specific. Energy is very unique to where you grew up. ...I find so much joy to see people [Cohort 6] feel optimistic about the climate crisis. I'm excited to move away from the doom and gloom." ~NEIL YEOH, who brings us *joy* with his Aussie accent, whether speaking about duck curves or pimples 😂 😂 😂 = = = ⚡️Energized by this next group of Cohort 6 changemakers in (4) images: 🌟 Abdallah Mohamed 🌟 Benjamin Mouw 🌟 David White 🌟 Debbie S. Brannon 🌟 Diana Wright 🌟 Donald Mak 🌟 Evan Furgurson 🌟 Heather Van, MSA 🌟 Holly Henry 🌟 Irina Tagintseva 🇺🇦 🌟 Janette Rosenbaum 🌟 Jason Hu 🌟 Jeff Baum 🌟 Katie Jo Pevehouse, M.S. 🌟 Namrata Kasaraneni 🌟 Santonu Kashyap Be smart & efficient with your energy use! 🌍 🌏 🌎 🗓 Reminder: Put April 19-27, 2025 on your calendars for SF Climate Week (Year 3)! #ClimatebaseFellowship #ESG #ClimatebaseCohort6 #Climatebase6ers #ThankfulThursday

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What do you want to talk about? TheSidebar headquarters sits right in the heart of #UNGA and #ClimateWeek activities, with space for 200 people. We’re booking programming from Sept 23 to 26. We want to get people talking. Discussion groups are powerful way to engage a diverse group of voices. The conversations cover topics that are critical to the sector and often neglected. We source the topics from you: the people who put themselves on the map. Your ideas drive the agenda. With input from nearly 300 people, we’ve assembled enough input to create discussion themes and topics. Now we need leaders to facilitate these groups. You can lead. All it takes is a curious mind and an interest in hearing from everyone. At The Sidebar we want all attendees to participate. Conversation can reveal hard earned insights from people whose brilliant voices aren’t always heard. We need your help to release that brilliance. If you have a burning desire to discuss something, chances are that we have topic that fits. Reach out, and let’s make it happen!

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What do you want to talk about? TheSidebar headquarters sits right in the heart of #UNGA and #ClimateWeek activities, with space for 200 people. We’re booking programming from Sept 23 to 26. We want to get people talking. Discussion groups are powerful way to engage a diverse group of voices. The conversations cover topics that are critical to the sector and often neglected. We source the topics from you: the people who put themselves on the map. Your ideas drive the agenda. With input from nearly 300 people, we’ve assembled enough input to create discussion themes and topics. Now we need leaders to facilitate these groups. You can lead. All it takes is a curious mind and an interest in hearing from everyone. At The Sidebar we want all attendees to participate. Conversation can reveal hard earned insights from people whose brilliant voices aren’t always heard. We need your help to release that brilliance. If you have a burning desire to discuss something, chances are that we have topic that fits. Reach out, and let’s make it happen!

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What do you think when you hear the word #Transparency? 📣 Look what 83 people shared with us in a recent workshop. Transparency is the bedrock for ambitious climate action as data helps track successes and identify areas for improvement. As UNFCCC Executive Secretary Simon Stiell said, "Without transparency it would be like navigating a dense forest without a map or a compass." If you are working in climate, you are surely working with data. Join the LinkedIn transparency community: https://lnkd.in/duPbBgan

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How to best fund sustainable development and justice-related issues in the Global South? Philanthropic collaboratives are driving outsized local impact across many issues, while staying rooted in equity. That's the convincing recommendation as formulated in a compelling report by The Bridgespan Group. The report argues that collaborative funds - entities that strategically channel resources from multiple donors to nonprofits and community-based organizations - deliver outsized impact across issue areas in the Global South. Yet they remain a largely underutilized segment of the global philanthropic landscape. This has to change! The report assesses 40 collaborative funds, including some of our own strategic partners, such as Fundo Baobá para Equidade Racial, Samdhana Institute and Casa Socio-Environmental Fund, and highlights what is their unique value proposition. Three prominent and intertwined factors are featured: efficiency, effectiveness, and engagement. - First, collaborative funds are efficient ways of supporting funders with navigating due diligence, logistics, and risk. - Second, funds are effective because they are proximate to communities and build capacity. - Third, collaborative funds engage donors in a learning journey. Our gratitude to the lead authors, Sonali Patel, Alexandra Hughes Browne, Gayle Martin and Zachary Slobig, for showing how collaborative funds and trust-based #philanthropy are indeed a best practise, a good fit and compelling way forward to address structural development and justice-related issues! 🙏🏾🌎🌳 See full report below, or download in the following link: https://lnkd.in/duFdBNMR

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#Climatefinance still insufficient, can cities integrate climate targets into municipal budgeting for long-term resilience? Here I try to find out: https://lnkd.in/ggHfEf99 #climatebudget #climateactionplan #climateemergency #climatecrisis #Indiancities Shruti Narayan Lubaina Rangwala Soumya Chaturvedula Shrimoyee Bhattacharya Aditya Valiathan Pillai

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