This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. While rural districts faced many uphill battles during spring closures — including connectivity issues, difficulty maintaining relationships with impoverished students whose parents were working, and delivering meals to families who…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Black youth in the U.S. experience more illness, poverty, and discrimination than their white counterparts. These issues put them at higher risk for depression and other mental health problems. Yet…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If the nations of the world really want to limit climate change to the level agreed five years ago, it will not be enough to immediately abandon fossil fuels as…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If you need to treat anxiety in the future, odds are the treatment won’t just be therapy, but also an algorithm. Across the mental-health industry, companies are rapidly building solutions for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. By the year 2100, heat stress from extreme heat and humidity will annually affect areas now home to 1.2 billion people, assuming greenhouse emissions remain the same, researchers report. That’s…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. From balconies in New York City to the National Assembly in Kenya; across Spain, Italy, Turkey, Singapore, India, and many other nations around the world—some of the most inspiring images…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “The Covid-19 pandemic was expected to drive many families into hunger as jobs were lost and supply chains were interrupted. The prediction held true, but mostly for minorities,” reports The…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Enlisting community health workers to help diagnose and treat acute malnutrition may significantly increase coverage and save lives, according to new research from the global humanitarian group Action Against Hunger. The Community Health Workers…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. During the early COVID-19 vaccine campaigns in South Sudan, Gabon and Somalia, just 30% of people vaccinated were women—raising concerns that women were being left behind across Africa as well…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Dr. Renee Lertzman is an expert on this type of existential change management — the practice, strategies and tools needed for organizations to confront an existential threat such as climate…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. There once was a time, even in living memory, when polio was a global threat that paralyzed children at alarming rates. Now, it has been almost entirely eliminated. Cases and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Two years ago, in September 2019, the World Education Services (WES) Mariam Assefa Fund awarded its first grants to organizations working to build more inclusive economies for immigrants and refugees in the…