Advocacy and Policy

Building on seven years of working to enable global stakeholders to transform funding practices and support positive systems change, RPA is pleased to release Facilitating Equitable Systems Change: A Guide to Help Foundation Board Members and Executive Leadership Lead the Way.

Censorship, educational intimidation bills and gag orders are all chilling the free exchange of ideas in classrooms, advocates say.

“Firearms experts are failing to report evidence that’s favorable to the defense, and it has to be addressed and corrected.”…

Reproductive justice – including access to safe and legal abortion – is foundational to eradicating poverty in this country. Research shows that those who are forced to carry out unwanted pregnancies are…

The Biden administration directed agencies to consider the cost of greenhouse gas emissions in their future purchasing and budget decisions. An example shows just how much is at stake.

TC Caldwell of The Knights and Orchids Society on how the fight for bodily autonomy and self-determination doesn’t stop or start with Roe: “Our work doesn’t stop or start with these…

Improving the world through disruptive innovation.

Up to one-third of COVID-19 survivors will acquire the condition known as long or long-haul COVID-19. The American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation estimates that long COVID will add…

Higher Education News…

In March, on International Women’s Day, President Biden issued an executive order to establish the Gender Policy Council and create our country’s first-ever national gender strategy “as a matter of human rights, justice,…

White public schools have always gotten more money than Black public schools. These funding disparities go back to the so-called “separate but equal” era—which was enshrined into the nation’s laws by the…

The climate emergency is here. Our political system isn’t responding at scale, so climate activists are stepping up their game.