This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the past 30 years, the world has made phenomenal progress in terms of ensuring more new-borns and infants survive the first few years of life. Between 1990 and 2019…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. To ensure that a post-pandemic recovery does not leave low-income and Black and Latinx communities even further behind, the Chicago Community Trust recently launched Together We Rise: For an Equitable and Just Recovery.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Housing insecurity was a widespread problem among low-income renters well before the COVID-19 pandemic. As of 2019, more than 10 million households spent over half their income on rent. Today, households earning…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When people look for help from safety net programs, they are often at a low point. That the process for receiving legally mandated aid should so often be bewildering and,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Domestic violence rates are increasing in developing and developed countries alike during the COVID-19 pandemic. The number of domestic violence incidents in the US increased by 8.1% after lockdown orders, according to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Since the onset of the pandemic nearly a year ago, educators have been tasked with addressing new, multi-layered challenges due to the primary and secondary trauma associated with COVID-19. Evidence suggests those…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Epidemiologists – like oncologists and climate scientists – hate to be proved right. A year ago this week, the communications rush began from epidemiologists in academia to the public and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Serious psychiatric illness, also referred to as serious mental illness, includes major depressive disorder, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, suicidality and other brain diseases that substantially interfere with one or more major…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Nearly a year after the World Health Organization officially declared the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak a global pandemic, the world is still struggling to recover and operating in what we…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Lending a hand is a big U.S. tradition. More than 77.4 million Americans volunteered in 2019, completing 6.9 billion hours of service worth an estimated US$167 billion. Today, no matter…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A serious, but largely overlooked, problem in philanthropy is feeling overwhelmed. What is overwhelm? According to wellness writer Michelle Rees, “Overwhelm happens when the sheer volume of thoughts feelings, tasks,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. One in every 645 Black people in the United States can expect to die from COVID-19, per data from February 2021. Blacks are 2.1 times more likely than whites to die…