This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Georgene Huang was two months pregnant, unemployed and looking for a work environment that promoted women and offered decent maternity leave policies. Yet asking questions about aspects of a job…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. To address climate change over the coming decades, all nations will need to transition to energy resources that emit less carbon. This transformation, already underway, will require many new technologies.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For its second impact fund, Salesforce is doubling the size of its pockets to support start-up companies working to solve problems in education, workforce training and climate science, and to…
Artificial intelligence will disrupt labor markets and the global economy. It will help medicine, health, and sustainability, and challenge building an inclusive economy. Tech companies will benefit, but governments must…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The question of whether to reject funding from wealthy donors with tainted reputations is an issue that nonprofits have grappled with for generations. This topic has garnered more widespread public…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This week, The Century Foundation announced The Bridges Collaborative, a grassroots effort to improve racial and socioeconomic integration and equity that involves 56 organizations, including 27 school districts of various sizes, geographies and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the nonprofit world, leadership often doesn’t mirror the makeup of the people these organizations seek to help. One recent study found that less than 20% of nonprofit director roles were filled by…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Days before the launch of Harambee’s newest partnership with the South African presidency to scale up in-person job placement centers across the country, COVID-19 forced the country into lockdown. Plans came…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Outside of homeownership, retirement savings are the most important way middle-class workers and their families build wealth in the United States. But this second pillar of wealth creation is woefully…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As other contributors to this series have pointed out, the US economy is deeply inequitable. The median household wealth for black and Latinx families is 12 times less than white households. The Surdna Foundation,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Not long after schools closed because of the coronavirus last spring, a Rhode Island nonprofit launched a hotline for teachers who were struggling to launch new technology for remote leaning…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Protester demands to “defund the police” following the May police killing of George Floyd seemed to gain traction at the start of the summer. City officials nationwide promised to slash police department…