This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The central strategy of most market-based sanitation (MBS) programs is to encourage entrepreneurial participation in sanitation value chains. However, fostering commercially viable and sustainable enterprises that attract and sustain entrepreneurial…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Digital platforms have soared five-fold over the past decade, offering opportunities to some but also eroding workers’ rights, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said on Tuesday. From ride-sharing apps like…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Women-owned businesses in Canada are taking nearly twice the amount of time to recover financially from the impacts of COVID-19 than those owned by men, a new study revealed. The Business…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Maybe you’ve heard the aphorisms about failure from tech evangelists: Fail up; fail fast; fail often. Failure has become a kind of success, a bragging right on its own. But…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As our country continues to wrestle with the damaging effects of the coronavirus pandemic, and school closures become the norm nationwide in an attempt to slow the spread, millions of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. These programs have demonstrated that artists working in partnership with government are essential workers who bring creative practices and solutions to issues that municipalities face. In the years ahead, municipal and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Fidelity Charitable, the nation’s largest grant maker, has reported a banner 2020, with donations surging 24% from 2019 to $9.1 billion — by far the largest total on record. Yet…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When my father grew up in East New York, it was a true melting pot of backgrounds and ethnicities. And the local YMCA was the place where everyone of every…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Eleven months have passed since COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). As we rang in the new year, the world surpassed two million deaths due to COVID-19. While…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. COVID-19 has exacerbated inequality for people with disabilities around the world. They are struggling to access health care, are more exposed to the virus, and have disproportionately felt the social…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If the COVID-19 pandemic has made anything clear, it’s that viruses don’t respect borders — and that individual country responses to them shouldn’t either. As the world finds itself amid…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 2020, philanthropic donations by major donors saw an almost 7 percent increase on a year-to-date basis. As companies direct more of their money to external charitable causes, internally decision-makers are assessing…