This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. On January 8th, Bill Gates spoke with an audience of health care professionals, and made the business case for pursuing breakthroughs in global health. He outlined ambitious goals for global…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. From government bodies, United Nations agencies, Red Cross societies, and NGOs to 50,000 individual contributors in 40 countries, an interconnected global community is using remotely-sensed imagery from satellites and drones to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. My impression is that the cause of AI safety has become increasingly mainstream, with a lot of researchers unaffiliated with the above organisations working at least tangentially on it. However,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Sitting in a tarpee erected outside the Capitol Building in the US state of Washington, seven Indigenous women and their supporters have vowed to stay put. They will stay until they are…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Two and a half months ago, Congress missed the deadline to reauthorize federal support for home visiting. The Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting program (MIECHV, pronounced McVee) is,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The president signed an executive order on October 12th, 2017 that will allow small employers to join associations of small business — such as farm bureaus or chambers of commerce — that provide…
The Behavioral Interventions to Advance Self-Sufficiency (BIAS) project is the first major opportunity to use a behavioral economics lens to examine programs that serve poor and vulnerable families in the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Science tells us that a child’s brain grows fastest from birth through age five, and what happens during that time significantly determines how the child will learn, grow and succeed…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The next disruptive technology phase is already upon here and it includes a technology designed to emulate human conversation — chatbots programmed with artificial intelligence. It will have implications for nonprofits way…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The idea of impact investing tends to divide people into two groups. Some believe it is the best-of-both-worlds; a way to invest that bolsters their mission while generating competitive returns.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. From August 2017 to January 2018, an estimated 650,000 Rohingyas, out of a population of a million, fled from Myanmar to neighboring Bangladesh to escape a campaign of arson, rape,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. One year ago, NGO executives and aid agency leaders were imagining what Brexit and a newly elected President Donald Trump might mean for their work and for the world. Today…