This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In enacting Proposition 63, the Mental Health Services Act, California voters in 2004 created and charged the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission with the responsibility of driving transformational…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the summer of 2018, Mayor Naheed Nenshi of Calgary, Canada, decided to make mental health and addiction the cornerstone of his third term. Like many cities in North America,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Typically, we perceive the sole actors of the education equation to be teachers and students, whether the students are children in elementary schools or young people in high school and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When Okey Okuzu first started using mobile technology to track health data in Nigeria, the system he used relied on texting via a simple mobile phone. The platform was a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. How much taxes do high-income Americans evade? And what kinds of evasion tactics do they use? These questions are important for tax enforcement policies and the measurement of income inequality…
One month ago, world leaders gathered at the United Nations for a summit to discuss movements of refugees and migrants, however the absence of concrete commitments in the resulting New…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The pandemic has hastened the need to evolve our businesses. For companies and entrepreneurs, this type of innovation doesn’t just mean bettering our products and services; rather, it entails taking…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The BoardSource Recommended Governance Practices reflect BoardSource’s decades of experience working with tens of thousands of nonprofit board leaders and conducting extensive research on board practices. They highlight essential, leading,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Surveys, datasets, and published research often lump together racial and ethnic groups, which can erase the experiences of certain communities. Combining groups with different experiences can mask how specific groups…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Justice and Mobility Fund is another funder that threw its weight behind the Clean Slate initiative last year, along with Arnold and the Ballmer Group. ‘Ultimately, Clean Slate Initiative’s…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In late December 2020, amidst a tumultuous US presidential transition and raging COVID-19 pandemic, the US House and Senate passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, an annual constitutional obligation that funds the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Hundreds of companies, including major emitters like United Airlines, BP and Shell, have pledged to reduce their impact on climate change and reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. These plans…