This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. After 20 years of successful leadership by charismatic founder Christa Gannon, Fresh Lifelines for Youth (FLY) underwent a leadership transition in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic downturn, and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Each of us, no matter who we are, what we look like, or where we come from, needs a safe place to live. Our homes should be healthy, accessible, and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Cheaper Solar Power Means Low-Income Families Can Also Benefit Until recently, rooftop solar panels were a clean energy technology that only wealthy Americans could afford. But prices have dropped, thanks…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Amongst the many dramatic challenges global businesses faced in 2020, one that had been simmering for years bubbled up and promised to stay at a high boil in 2021 is…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. At a virtual fundraiser last July, then-presidential candidate Joe Biden said, “I want young climate activists, young people everywhere, to know: I see you. I hear you. I understand the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Sustainable investing strategies have ascended quickly in the last 10 years. The events of this year have been first and foremost a human tragedy, but they also have served as…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When his father died last year of an overdose.Rodney Watson thought he would miss the funeral and his last chance to say goodbye—not because of the pandemic, but because he…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. What I’m seeing as I mentor and coach entrepreneurs in the U.S. and globally is that more and more of them want to build companies that can make a positive social impact…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Aanika Biosciences, a Brooklyn-based biotechnology company that says it’s able to quickly identify the source of foodborne contaminations—or pathogens—by using genetically engineered bacterial spores that cling to food. Their spores…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In a report on foundations’ equity efforts related to the 2020 crises released in December by the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP), the organization I lead, we found that of 218 foundations…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The past year has been a tumultuous and unprecedented one. The nonprofit sector continues to grapple with heightened economic and political uncertainty, new fundraising realities, cascading needs, and mounting concerns…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 2018, Odunayo Eweniyi was just five years out of university and had already founded two companies, the second of which, PiggyVest, had just raised $1.1 million in funding. Today,…