This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. On an August morning, at a festival ground less than an hour from Uganda’s capital city of Kampala, banners touting agribusinesses bent in the breeze across from a small stage. There,…
The following introduction is an excerpt from a Safe Routes to School National Partnership research article, read the full PDF available above __________________________________ Hey, baby!” By the time many girls…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When the Social Innovation Fund (SIF) awarded a $4 million grant to Friends of the Children, President Terri Sorensen knew she had an unprecedented opportunity. If she could raise the $9.4…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Guatemala is a tough place to be a kid. The fastest growing country and primary recipient of U.S. remittances in Central America is also one of the hemisphere’s poorest nations,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. After an especially tough school year in Colorado regarding youth suicides, the state attorney general’s office will fund new prevention initiatives to help teens statewide. The initiative will help up…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Youth Villages YVLifeSet program helps develop the skills needed in order to live a successful and independent life. Approximately 23,000 young adults in the U.S. age out of the foster…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. At his South San Francisco middle school, Christopher, then 13, did something he believed was mean and stupid but ultimately inconsequential: He grabbed a girl’s butt in the hallway. The…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Every year, more than 4 million young people experience homelessness in the United States. And while youth homelessness is a largely hidden problem, it impacts a staggering number of young…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Together for the first time since many started a new school year, the Newark cohort of Aspen Young Leaders Fellows unpacked the essence of innovation, revisited social venture projects, continued…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the six weeks since violence erupted across Rakhine State, Myanmar, on 25 August 2017, more than half a million people – almost equivalent to the population of The Hague or…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Helping children heal from abuse or neglect is rewarding but hard. Like the children in their care, kin and foster parents need to find ways of experiencing strong feelings without…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Tears roll down her face. Through the sobbing, she describes how her family has suffered at the hands of one of the world’s deadliest street gangs. She pauses for a…