This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In recent years, there has been growing consensus that jail incarceration is harmful and unnecessary because it causes damage to people’s stability and health and does not meaningfully reduce crime…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Even before the pandemic, artists struggled financially. During the best of economic times, many artists must work multiple jobs to make ends meet, do not qualify for employer-sponsored benefits like…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In Flint, Mich., a worried mother begins working with lab scientists and fellow community members to test the city’s water supply—and helps expose a lead crisis that may have sickened…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. School librarians hear the question all the time: Why do we need school libraries and school librarians when students have the internet? The perception is that a computer and Wi-Fi…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. What should be prioritized when working with organizations to embrace a systems-change mindset? Invite varied perspectives to the table to be a part of the planning process. Be honest about…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. To realize the full value of human services community-based organizations, we need to change both the narrative around what they do and the structures for funding them, stressing shared values…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. That’s so nice. When I tell people about our work at Einhorn Collaborative — a foundation dedicated to addressing America’s growing crisis of connection — I often receive this response.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The prolonged coronavirus pandemic continued to force seismic shifts in public policy and company behaviour. It brought about important fixes in the financial system and altered how businesses reacted to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It is urgent that philanthropy invest in a dramatic expansion of civic bridging through an explicit lens of racial justice. This form of civic bridging entails multiracial, multiethnic relationship building,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, homelessness took on a greater priority in communities across the nation. Driven by the economic impacts of the pandemic, the federal government stepped…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Improving job quality improves livelihoods and often transforms lives. Low-wage work in the US economy is far too pervasive. According to a Brookings Institution 2019 report, 53 million workers (44% of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Misinformation is content that is false, inaccurate or misleading, even if it is spread unintentionally. A 2016 research study by the Stanford Education Research Group showed that many young people (not unlike…