Making Architecture Relevant to Underserved Communities: Mapping Reconsidered

Communities committed to underserved care.

Venture Capital and Underserved Communities

Access to equity capital is critical for the growth of businesses, especially for young companies, which lack the cash flows necessary to repay loans. To meet this need, a thriving venture capital industry has evolved, fostering job creation, economic growth, and innovation in the United States. Not all companies, however, have been equally able to access such investments. Firms owned by women ...

Knowledge Sharing In Underserved Communities

Organizing principles, exchange relationships, and technology affordance of underserved communities in emerging markets are different from privileged communities. This paper investigates knowledge sharing and the use of mobile ICT in a rural farming community in India. Our qualitative field study reveals that value creating and claiming norms are key enablers of knowledge sharing in underserved...

Engaging diverse underserved communities to bridge the mammography divide

BACKGROUND Breast cancer screening continues to be underutilized by the population in general, but is particularly underutilized by traditionally underserved minority populations. Two of the most at risk female minority groups are American Indians/Alaska Natives (AI/AN) and Latinas. American Indian women have the poorest recorded 5-year cancer survival rates of any ethnic group while breast can...

Perceptions of Cardiovascular Health in Underserved Communities

INTRODUCTION Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of deaths and illnesses in US adults, and the prevalence is disproportionately high in underserved populations. In this study, we assessed respondents' understanding of context-specific differences in knowledge and perceptions of disease, risk, and prevention in 6 underserved communities, with the longer-term goal of developing appropriat...