This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Pandemic closes school. Students go home. Remote classes falter. Child is disengaged. Parent builds edtech. So goes the origin story of many education startups born this year, like ClassEDU, which…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. COVID-19 is hard on women because the U.S. economy is hard on women, and this virus excels at taking existing tensions and ratcheting them up. Millions of women were already…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Laurie Archbald-Pannone, University of Virginia Deaths from dementia during the summer of 2020 are nearly 20% higher than the number of dementia-related deaths during that time in previous years, and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In a farming region outside of Hyderabad, India, the nonprofit Kheyti is using a “Greenhouse-in-a-box” solution to build climate resilience and income stability among India’s smallholder farmers. Founded in 2015, the organization’s…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Will Garland is taking all his classes online this fall for COVID-19 safety reasons, like so many students across the country. But the eighth grader’s lessons at Cleveland’s Urban Community…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Last week, we convened our peers for our annual journalism funders gathering to discuss some of the most pressing issues facing journalism—and our nation—today. We hope that our two days…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the first weeks and months of the pandemic, as the Skoll Foundation aimed to support COVID-19 response across sub-Saharan Africa, we made an early grant to Development Media International (DMI) for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Spreading out of a food market in Wuhan, China, the COVID-19 pandemic emerged as the predictable result of trade or trafficking in wild-animal meat. China’s epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome…
Giving Compass’ Take: • This report analyzes the current state of SNAP and discusses the future of food safety net programs in the United States. • What key role do…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. COVID-19 school closings have harmful learning and earnings effects on the welfare of students and the nation. But effective educational approaches are available to help young people overcome these negative…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Edith Prentiss, a 68-year-old resident of New York City’s Washington Heights neighborhood, has relied on a wheelchair for 28 years because of a badly injured right leg. She struggles to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “It is in proximity,” as public interest lawyer Bryan Stevenson says, “that we understand things we cannot understand from a distance.” For the last 12 years, college faculty working with…