This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In previous years, we evaluated each charity’s “mission effectiveness” by qualitatively assessing the effectiveness of the primary types of interventions the charity employed. This year we have: Reworded and reordered…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. One afternoon, a friend was hosting a backyard barbeque for some neighborhood families. A child called out to the other kids: “Let’s go down to the creek.” The group of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. You may describe your giving bucket under the banner of human rights, education, women’s health, animal rights, conservation, clean water, food waste, or resilient cities. Only a handful of us…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The solar industry has feasted on government subsidies for years — a fact that irks conservatives no end. It has nothing to do with solar energy, per se, and everything…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now reported this week that immigrants in the path of Hurricane Harvey were afraid to evacuate to shelters or approach authorities to seek help due to a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s 2050. In New York, the old working-class Long Island beach town of Mastic Beach no longer exists–and neither does the beach; the sand is underwater. What’s left of it…
Over Patagonia’s 44 year history it has never aired a single commercial, up until now. From the early roots of Patagonia in 1973, founded by environmental activist Yvon Chouinard, Patagonia…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If you’re commuting home in Los Angeles on the bus, that means waiting an average 20 minutes or more at a stop. Uber, by contrast, has an average wait time of five…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. ACE evaluates charities using multiple criteria, in an effort to identify the most cost-effective animal advocacy charities and programs for donors to support. Some of our criteria—such as cost-effectiveness calculations…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Harvey’s havoc continued to pour down, three days after the storm rammed Texas as a Category 4 hurricane, unleashing a torrent of rain, turning streets into rivers, and leaving thousands…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As it turns out, there is something any one of us can do and it involves no marches on Washington or angry letters to elected officials. All we have to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. How can we play effective defense to conserve as many sound environmental policies as possible from the past 50 years? The community is now spending much of its time and…