This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. On November 15, Independent Sector, alongside our extraordinary partners at KABOOM!, was proud to represent the work – and the voices – of the Nonprofit Infrastructure Investment Advocacy Group (NIIAG) at…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Public sexual harassment is an issue in every society. But misogyny and sexual harassment in public has been so normalised that often bringing up the issue of behaviour such as…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The earliest years of education for children matters. And while it has taken as long as until 2021 for America to highlight a promising early learning policy, there is renewed hope…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As we confront the many inequities exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, The New Deal, the Roosevelt administration’s sweeping policy response to the Great Depression of the 1930s, should be an…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 2020, the General Assembly passed a law requiring local school divisions to adopt model policies extending rights to transgender students. But even as debates over those policies have convulsed…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The short animated cartoon starts out with an animal-rights activist trying to pass out pamphlets in front of a signboard with a pig on it. Despite his enthusiasm, no one…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. After escaping from slavery in 1838, Frederick Douglas became a national leader of the abolitionist movement and later started an antislavery newspaper in Rochester, New York, called The North Star. Almost…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the past two decades, the number of Black adults with a college degree has more than doubled, from 3 million to 6.7 million, marking an increase in the percentage of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Rudy Carey was on his way to get drugs in the summer of 2004 when he got pulled over because the light over his license plate was broken. He’d been…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Statistically, Native populations have historically been misrepresented and underrepresented due to haphazard and inconsistent data collection practices. And when funding decisions hinge on the stories the data tell, urgent community…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The disproportionate killing of innocent and unarmed Black men and women by police forces across the United States continues today despite more than five decades of steadily integrating many of those same…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If you’ve pumped gas at a U.S. service station over the past decade, you’ve put biofuel in your tank. Thanks to the federal Renewable Fuel Standard, or RFS, almost all…