This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and BioNtech announced Nov. 20, 2020, that they will seek emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration for a vaccine to prevent COVID-19. On…
Rearchitecting the future of work and workforce development is critical at a moment when millions of displaced and underserved workers are facing systemic barriers to even providing for themselves and…
COVID-19 and an intense national focus on racial equity have changed the way social entrepreneurs work and their vision for the future of education. Leaders and their organizations have evolved…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The third edition of the Nonprofit Trend Report published by Salesforce.org highlights how nonprofits are being asked to play a larger role in serving communities around the world, and how technology can accelerate their…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. After decades of progress, world hunger is sadly on the rise. Last year, 690 million people went hungry, and with COVID-19, that number is growing rapidly. The pandemic has caused…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Nationwide, 67% of K-12 schools still lack the recommended internet connectivity speed of 1 megabits per second per student, according to a report by Connected Nation. That digital learning gap affects 31.5 million…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The world was unprepared for COVID-19 — but it has responded remarkably to the challenge of a pandemic. Nearly one year into the outbreak, 172 countries are involved in researching vaccine candidates for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Covid-19 has turned many business leaders’ standard operating procedure upside down. For those leaders practicing corporate social responsibility (CSR), there’s been a struggle to balance pandemic-related initiatives with the other…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. BioNTech and the American pharmaceutical company Pfizer announced they had jointly developed a COVID-19 vaccine that was 90 percent effective against the coronavirus in clinical trials. Although the vaccine is not approved…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Earlier this year, Jessica Ann Mitchell Aiwuyor saw a friend arguing on Twitter about Black identity. Aiwuyor noticed that the Twitter account her friend was fighting with was a new…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Standing over the stove in the humid kitchen, peeling vegetables for her family’s lunch while her young daughter tugged at her jeans, Kayla told me that she wished she never…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 pandemic will change our society in ways that are difficult to predict with precision, but will undoubtedly be far-reaching, just as earlier crises from the Great Recession to…