Beat the #holiday blues by giving back on #GivingTuesday šŸ˜„

Laura N. Montoya
Accel.AI
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3 min readNov 27, 2018

Give back this year to the organization that is leading AI for Social Impact initiatives including our Demystifying AI Symposiums, Ethical AI Development, and most recently the LatinX in AI Coalition.

Accel AI Institute is dedicated to diversifying the artificial intelligence industry. Accel.AI was founded in 2016, with a mission is to lower the barriers to entry in engineering artificial intelligence. We focus on integrating AI and Social Impact through consulting, workshops, and research on ethical AI development and applied AI engineering.

Our target audience includes underrepresented groups in tech, social justice advocates, nonprofits, social impact startups, and those experiencing job loss due to automation.

We are based in the Bay Area and work with students, professionals, and companies around the world.

You can now purchase swag from the Accel AI Institute and LatinX in AI Coalition from our online store!

You can now purchase swag from the Accel AI Institute and LatinX in AI Coalition from our online store!

There are many other ways to show your support too!

Donate with the PayPal Giving Fund. PayPal helps your gifts do more good!

  • PayPal ensures charities are in good standing
  • PayPal verifies that receiving charities have tax-exempt status with the IRS and are not on recognized economic sanctions lists.
  • When you donate through PayPal Giving Fund, all fees are on them.
  • After you donate, youā€™ll get your PayPal Giving Fund tax receipt by email.
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Support the Accel AI Institute when you shop at smile.amazon.com. You shop. Amazon gives.

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Use Benevity for your employee giving and matching program? List Accel AI Institute as your preferred NonProfit today! Benevityā€™s goodness platform empowers socially conscious brands to make a real difference.

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Accel.AI on Open Collective

Contribute to our Open Collective!

Meetups, open source projects, parent associations, neighborhood associations, pet projects, clubs, unions, movements, non-profits, business incubators ā€” in order to operate, all of them are forced to use a physical glass jar, ask a sponsor to directly pay their expenses or front the huge overhead of setting up and managing a corporation or a non-profit. Itā€™s either inefficient and opaque or itā€™s overkill. Open Collective enables groups to quickly set up a collective, raise funds and manage them transparently.

Want other ways to get involved?

  • Volunteer with us.
  • Start a local chapter of our organization.
  • Contribute to our Medium publications.
  • Contribute to our open source projects.
  • Request our Demystifying AI Symposium or Ethical AI workshop at your organization.

Contact us to learn more info@accel.ai.

Thank You!

You can stay up to date with Accel.AI; workshops, research, and social impact initiatives going forward through our website, mailing list, meetup group, twitter and facebook page.

Join us in driving AI for Social Impact!

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Laura N. Montoya
Accel.AI
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Social Impact Investor, #AI Researcher, & Speaker. Founder @ Accel.ai & @LatinxinAI. Find me @QuickResolute or in/lnmontoya or www.LauraNMontoya.com