This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. With our country’s growing awareness of its own deep and systemic inequities prompting long-overdue reflections about how institutions need to change, the social sector is asking important questions about who…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 2018, when journalists like myself started reporting that China was putting Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in internment camps, experts said we shouldn’t call it genocide — yet. Though they said…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Olivier De Schutter recently conducted a two-month mission to the European Union, where women are more likely to fall into poverty than men, a situation that has further deteriorated as a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In Understanding the Motivations of Baby Boomer Volunteers, the national volunteerism support organization AmeriCorps argued, based on 2004 data, that volunteer opportunities “must be expanded and diversified in order to appeal to the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Muzalema Mwanza had always been aware of the health challenges facing her country, Zambia. It was not until her first pregnancy in 2017, however, that she experienced firsthand all of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Clean Energy Venture Group has invested in 39 companies since its start in 2005, and those companies have earned more than $500 million in follow-on investments from large venture capital firms…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Grant reports. We all love to hate them. A reason is that like most things related to grants, we’ve learned to tell funders what we think they want to hear.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The biggest companies in the Asia Pacific region got worse at reporting their sustainability performance in 2020, and improved in only one area — human rights — according to a…
Even before the pandemic and associated economic fallout, one in four working adults in the US earned a wage insufficient to lift a small family out of poverty. The impact…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The City of Pittsburgh is implementing an “Equitable Street Tree Investment Strategy” to better distribute and maintain tree canopies in low-income and low-canopy neighborhoods as it pursues a goal to plant 100,000…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. From redefining the idea of beauty to eliminating the stigma of mental health issues, social activism comes in many forms. And this drive to bring change to communities has made…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The oil industry’s lobbying arm, the American Petroleum Institute, suggested in a new draft statement that it might support Congress putting a price on carbon emissions to combat climate change,…