This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Despite the financial setbacks faced by many in 2020, charitable giving rose to an all-time high. Global giving statistics aren’t collected, but in the United States people donated a record $471 billion…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Corporate America is missing out on one of the biggest opportunities of our time for driving innovation and growth: creating business value by advancing racial equity. Developed in partnership with PolicyLink and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Three reasons that I think it is important that those in the philanthropy world start thinking about disruptive technology now. In order to take advantages of the opportunities new technologies afford:…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Between 1904 and 1908, German soldiers and settler colonists killed about half of all Nama people and over 80% of the Herero ethnic group. On May 28, 2021, German Foreign…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Innovation—the creation of new ideas, products, and services—has become increasingly important as a source of energy and funding in the social sector. Traditional nonprofit business models are being questioned, the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In a world of increasing transparency, we expect that what’s on the label will reflect what’s inside the package. This is as true for an “organic, cage-free” label on a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The current place of impact investing in public discourse can only be understood within the broader context of debates surrounding the legitimacy and value of philanthrocapitalism, defined as the deliberate…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. You’d be hard-pressed to find many positives from Melbourne’s latest, six-week COVID-19 lockdown. But increased economic and employment opportunities for migrant, refugee, and asylum seeker women is one of them.…
In this episode of Who Belongs? we hear from Jacinta González, an organizer with Mijente, a non-profit which leads campaigns to educate and organize around issues concerning immigration, detentions and deportations. Jacinta…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the US federal government assumed that banks were the best way to distribute billions of dollars of relief to small businesses. But this unplanned national…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In late May, the Small Business Administration stopped processing relief applications from women, veterans, and people of color. Then the agency started rescinding their approvals. When Kazu Fukumoto, the owner of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “On the heels of one of the worst wildfire years on record, the federal government is struggling to recruit and retain staff as firefighters grapple with low wages, trauma and…