This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When COVID-19 happened in 2020, we were faced with the challenge of transitioning our in-person incubation program for idea-stage entrepreneurs to a 100% online setting. All our coaching sessions and…
#AskHer is an interview series featuring women and gender non-conforming leaders, and The Women’s Foundation’s partners, community members and supporters who work tirelessly for women and girls. We curate in-depth…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Online learning efforts may remain even when the pandemic fades away. Teachers’ confidence wavers in using edtech for instruction. Perhaps (not) coincidentally, there is more spending forecast for education technology.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Resilient Schools Project, a Future of School initiative, partners with districts, like South Dorchester School District Two (Summerville, SC) is an award-winning school system near the Charleston, South Carolina area…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s been almost a year since the coronavirus put the U.S. arts and culture sector in lockdown. At Americans for the Arts, we spent the last year surveying artists and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Mental health problems have been increasingly recognised as one of the most significant health concerns for children and adolescents in developed countries. According to the World Health Organization, depression and anxiety disorders…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. ACE has grappled with the financial, strategic, and psychological repercussions of COVID-19 and the emotional toll of the tragic events that necessitated the Black Lives Matter uprising (with which we show total…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Educators have long recognized that creating connections between the school and the home has far-reaching positive benefits for individual students and the broader community. Effective family engagement both enables school…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We’re entering Month No. 11 of the COVID-19 pandemic, and finally—mercifully, really—there’s a vaccine on the horizon to provide relative immunity from the potentially deadly virus. Many Americans have been…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Since March 2020, the coronavirus pandemic has caused severe economic downturn and generated a spike in food insecurity in the country. At the same time, farmers had to destroy significant quantities of food because…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, hundreds of meatpacking plants across the country have struggled to contain outbreaks. Many of the hardest-hit plants are in the Midwest and Great Plains, where…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. What drives someone to give? While it’s safe to say that many associate the primary force behind donating comes from a positive place, that may not always be true. Many…