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Sharlene Gandhi
Sharlene has been reporting on responsible business, environmental sustainability and technology in the UK and Canada since 2018. She has worked with various organizations during this time, including the Stanford Social Innovation Review, the Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business at Lancaster University, AIGA Eye on Design, Social Enterprise UK and Nature is a Human Right. Sharlene moved to Toronto in early 2023 to join the Future of Good team, where she has been reporting at the intersections of technology, data and social purpose work. Her reporting has spanned several subject areas, including AI policy, cybersecurity, ethical data collection, and technology partnerships between the private, public and third sectors.
Sharlene's Latest Articles
“We stopped pretending to be neutral”: Why and how public and community foundations want to shift power dynamics
When it comes to equity, foundations are reassessing their granting practices, endowments, reporting requirements, and staff/volunteer recruitment.
Why are digital natives not included in Canada’s digital policy? Young people speak up
The inaugural Canada Youth Internet Governance Forum welcomed young people from coast-to-coast-to-coast, with a grant from CIRA covering the cost of travel for many.
How UK funders quickly mobilized against racist violence
One of the outcomes includes funders collecting more granular data on who receives funding, which communities they are from, and how that funding trickles down to racialized communities – but is that enough?
New ‘Common Impact Data Standard’ hopes to become Dewey Decimal System of impact measurement
Co-ordinated impact tracking saves time and tedium, unveiling “service deserts” along the way




