The Purpose issue # 33🔥

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In this issue

💡Trainspotting

🏖️ Impact-driven people to meet

🤼 How to not get killed by AI

😎Tweet of the day

🌐 Podcasts you should listen to

💰 Purpose jobs-a-go-go

Second-hand clobber for your commute

Don'tcha just love commuting? With all that space, timeliness and Red Bus Rover cheap fares (have you fallen into the 80s? -ed) Shelter has teamed up with The Purpose's favourite franchise, Network Rail, to promote the circular economy and give a boost to Shelter shops as well.

If you're in the vicinity of that London over October, you can combine two of your favourite pastimes; being late travelling and fashion, to nab some pre-loved threads and do some good for a very worthy cause to boot. Hold my 10 am standup while I check out some grandad-collared workwear.

Find out more about Shelter shops here and see more info on the initiative here

Grant payments get easier from Elons' old gaff

In case you missed it, PayPal has expanded further into the charitable donations business with Grant Payments, (US only currently) The new product has been created in partnership with National Philanthropic Trust (NPT) allows Donor-Advised Fund (DAF) sponsors, community foundations and other grantmakers to move their donations electronically through PayPal’s platform. Get more from Techcrunch;

Have a look at the article here

Interesting impact-driven people

Jess Cotton, Outlandish

Tell us bit about yourself and what you do I work on Business Development and as a Digital Producer at Outlandish. This year I've had the pleasure of working with:

• Greenpeace - on a Minister engagement tool to help save our oceans

• Labour Unions - a tool built to help people vote from home

• UKERC - an interactive climate engagement data-visualisation tool

What organisation do you work for? Outlandish is a values-driven tech co-op that builds websites, campaigns and data tools. We enable organisations to scale and deepen their impact. We do this through technology, design, organisational development, cooperation and network building.

What’s your current biggest issue? We are currently working to address the climate emergency (although this is not our singular focus it’s a particular area I am passionate about). Over 570 councils have declared a Climate Emergency in the UK. We are thinking about how we might give access to insights and help build a road to net zero for individuals, residents and businesses on a local level, at a National scale.

How are you solving it? Outlandish have designed and developed a Carbon Calculator, currently used by Islington Council as a tool for residents and businesses to identify their current carbon footprint and make user-relevant pledges to reduce it. We would like to expand the tool’s application, develop using our continued learnings, extend our reach and help impact carbon emissions across the UK. If so we’d love to hear from you, please contact us at [email protected] 

Tell us something no-one else knows about you or your organisation? There is only one (unwritten but welcomed) rule “is this good enough for now and safe enough to try?’

What’s your spirit animal and why? A wolf & a platypus (depends how I'm feeling on any given day). I’ve always had an affinity with wolves since I was a kid, I can’t explain why. Then when I went to Australia I had a similar experience when I saw a platypus. I think it’s a severe case of epistemology.

Thanks, Jess. (quickly Googles Epistemology) If you or your organisation would like to be featured in The Purpose, drop us a line at helloATpurposyDOTcom or give us a follow on Twitter and slide into our DM's

How to keep bias out of AI

AI algorithms make important decisions about you all the time -- like how much you should pay for car insurance or whether or not you get that job interview. But what happens when these machines are built with human bias coded into their systems? Technologist Kriti Sharma explores how the lack of diversity in tech is creeping into our AI, offering three ways we can start making more ethical algorithms.

If you haven't got 12 mins, TLDR;

• Outlines The dangers of AI

• Optionality for Intelligence in decision making

• Avoiding hiring decision bias

• What we can do about the above

See the Ted Talk here

Podcasts you should listen to - Disruptors for Good

Causeartist is a global community of social entrepreneurs, builders, creators, and conscious consumers, who believe business can positively impact the world. their disruptors for good podcast covers topics like climate tech, community investment and sustainable digital banks. Have a listen below

Go on, Get disrupted here

Tweet of the day

This wins the Internet for us. If the public voted for the clowns at No.10, 11, 12.....

• PM: Miriam Margolyes

• Chancellor of the Exchequer: Martin Lewis

• Secretary of State for the Environment: David Attenborough

See more from Alice here

Quick takes, interesting stuff

⏩ HSBC gets a slap on the wrist

⏩ Wagatha Cristie treads the boards

⏩ Satellite shows war crisis in lights 

Startups of the week - showcasing organisations advancing UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Check these out, they're all doing great work across diverse areas of technology and service - from low-income support to mental health and beyond. Hit them up below for more info.

🚀 DotGlasses Provides low-cost prescription eyeglasses. Offers small kits for vision testing to enable brands and organizations to set up vision camps.

🚀 Cloq offers access to nano-credit to low-income entrepreneurs in order to build a sustainable credit history and (re-)integrate them into the financial system

🚀 Optellium A lung health company, providing artificial intelligence software for clinicians to make the best decisions for early diagnosis and optimal treatment

Career moves with impact

Impact manager - St Martin-in-the-Fields

This is a varied role, working across our grant-making, effectiveness, and influencing programmes that underpin our new Theory of Change. You will be responsible for shaping our approach to Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning and embedding best practices across the team – helping to ensure that our funding reaches its impact potential.

Find out more here

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