This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The United Nations estimates the financial capital needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals is US$ 5-7 trillion annually – imagine if the reported amount could be deployed from the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. America’s decades-long war on drugs has failed, simultaneously causing huge harms — fueling drug-related violence around the world and funneling millions of people into jails and prisons — and not…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This is a time when trust is our most valuable currency, as voters, as community members, and as philanthropists. Trust is not the same as blind faith — trust must…
Giving Compass’ Take: • The report, ‘Solidarity in the Time of COVID-19,’ revealed that COVID-19 recovery strategies were much more effective in places with a strong civil society presence, where…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Deviating from its more typical “best of (neighborhoods, doctors, crab shacks…)” lifestyle articles, Baltimore Magazine featured in its July issue a far less sunny piece on the ravaging impacts of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. 2020 is the worst fire season on record, with nearly 13 million acres burned, 14,000 structures destroyed, and fire suppression costs reaching the $3 billion mark. These numbers—acreage the size…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A slow-moving crisis threatens the U.S. Central Plains, which grow a quarter of the nation’s crops. Underground, the region’s lifeblood – water – is disappearing, placing one of the world’s…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. They aren’t all old enough to cast their ballots, but the teenagers Chalkbeat spoke with are clear on what’s at stake for them this Election Day. The response to COVID-19,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The European Union recently held the 13th annual Forum on the Rights of the Child, during which experts from a range of sectors who work on issues relating to children…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. How good are America’s public schools? It depends on where you live. Education funding is like any other public infrastructure investment. School systems with sufficient funding tend to get better…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As COVID-19 threatened jails and prisons in March, the Connecticut Department of Corrections decided to waive the $3 fee it charged prisoners for a medical visit. “We didn’t want the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The pandemic has had a profound impact on businesses — and also on organizations that rely on grants to do work. We caught up with a key expert of the…