This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When Nafkote Dabi, Oxfam’s policy lead in Niger, Nigeria, and Chad, went to Brussels for meetings at the European Union institutions in late October, she expected to be talking about…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The growing threat of climate change is no longer a matter of contentious scientific debate. Climate scientists now agree that humanity’s “carbon budget”—the cumulative sum of greenhouse gases that humanity…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Oakland, Calif., Mayor Libby Schaaf’s career wound its way through multiple sectors, starting when she was an attorney at the city’s largest law firm, always seeking a way to make…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. At the political level, the United States seems inexorably divided. There are heated ideological divisions among red and blue states; among cities, states, and the federal government; and among citizens.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Emily May moved to New York City after college with the intent of working for social change. Initially, she focused on anti-poverty work. But it was her experience of street…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. There’s more than just the future of the climate at stake in the global talks underway in Bonn, Germany. All of the global goals for 2030, from the end of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Dale Pfeifer remembers logging on to Facebook nearly 10 years ago, when it was still in its infancy, and reading a post about a friend’s charity that provides health and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. On a hope-filled day in September 2015, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau joined 150 world leaders in New York for the proclamation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals—the global…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Charities and funders are tackling difficult issues with limited resources: trying to improve people’s lives, tackle injustices, change government policies and help cure diseases. We need to use evidence effectively…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. CEOs – these are people who are hired to make money for their companies’ shareholders, of course. Some people would like CEOs to commit to another objective – to make…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Many girls in rural Africa lack access to education due to factors like gender inequality and familial poverty. But for the past 10 years, a social entrepreneur and former educator…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. On November 17, organizations and practitioners from across the U.S., U.K. and Canada will convene at a conference focused on arts and homelessness. The event, which is taking place in…