This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Here at Feedback Labs we stress the importance of 3 simple questions: what do people want? Are we helping them get it? If not, what should we be doing…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Reflecting on bits of wisdom to ground what will be my eighteenth year in the philanthropic sector, I didn’t want to defer to words such as strategy, impact, risk, and collaboration, which frame most conversations…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Enforced disappearances are among the cruelest of crimes. To the kidnapping, torture, and in many cases, murder of the victim, perpetrators intentionally create fear and uncertainty about the fate of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Trump administration has tapped Julian Schmoke, a former DeVry University administrator, to lead the Education Department’s student-aid enforcement unit. The move provoked complaints from critics who pointed out that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In Bangladesh, nearly half of 55 million urban residents lack the sanitation infrastructure to properly process human waste. The result: massive amounts of raw waste is unsafely dumped, fouling the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A million refugees arrived in Europe this year, says Alexander Betts, and ‘our response, frankly, has been pathetic.’ Betts studies forced migration, the impossible choice for families between the camps,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As part of our “Americans in the UN” project to share the stories of Americans who work for the United Nations, we talked to Eric Husketh, who grew up in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As we cannot easily measure improvements in the human condition, we need proxy measurements to guide our activities. So the two things we want from increasing autonomy and freedom is…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The tragic events in Charlottesville, VA, and President Trump’s failure to unequivocally repudiate the ideology of neo Nazis/white supremacists/alt right groups and their violence presents American philanthropy with a unique…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. India’s Supreme Court has ruled that the controversial practice of instant triple talaq practised among some Muslims in the country is unconstitutional. The ruling was made after five women petitioned the court,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over the past three months, significant legal reforms on women’s rights have advanced in a handful of countries in the Middle East and North Africa. Last week, Lebanon’s Parliament finally…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The tech industry has serious issues with bias and sexism — this is not news. Our progress toward equality is slow and imperfect. But as the news cycle pivots from…