PIE is a Nonprofit Organization Partnering To Advance Equity and Social Justice
Delivering on Digital Literacy
Digital Literacy Classes
Why Digital Literacy:
Collaboration of stakeholders at all levels from policy makers, organizations, communities, indivduals and families are essential to address the ongoing need for investments to advance digital equity.
FOUNDER & DIRECTOR
- Janice Sherman has spent the past three decades of her career working in the government and nonprofit sector advocating for the needs of underrepesented communities, largely through the nationally recognized community health center movement.
- In 2022, she was named among winners in the Goldman Sachs initiative to support One Million Black Women Nonprofit Leaders Transforming Communities and awarded 1 of 50 national impact award grants among 800 competing applicants. Her work in DEI was the impetus for this award.
- Ms. Sherman organized PIE in 2020 as a response to a deeply felt passion to partner with community health centers and related organizations to support their efforts for leveraging their impact. By using their own actionable data to mitigate broad and systemic inequities, she feels that they are a significant part of the solution; and need support for capacity building in getting there.
- At its origins, she along with others from various state primary care associations, led efforts to organize a national Race and Equity Workgroup providing a road map for those having a desire to respond to calls-to-action. She feels collective action is the way forward and not individual blaming.
- Ms. Sherman later partnered to establish the Dr. Robert Smith Center for Health Equity and Social Justice. She designed and launched an initiative to train ambassadors to develop solutions in attaining equity in the communities of color. This initiative, funded in part by the W.K Kellogg Foundation, supports work to address broad structural inequities.