This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “Humanitarian actors are increasingly recognizing the need to shift focus from providing refugees with immediate assistance to promoting their ability to obtain sustained self-reliance. Until now, we haven’t had a comprehensive tool…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over time, internet access has shifted from an amenity to a necessity. Nothing has illustrated that shift more clearly than the pandemic, which forced school, work and most everything else…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Dallas principal Ruby Ramirez knew trouble was brewing when the school counselor came to her office looking grim. A once gregarious, curious student was disappearing before their eyes, the counselor…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. CEP’s latest research report, Persevering Through Crisis: The State of Nonprofits, provides further evidence of the devastating impact of 2020 on nonprofits — and how the crises of the past year hit…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Not too long ago, I chatted with a successful entrepreneur who had started four failed companies before his big break. Time after time, failure after failure, investors continued to believe…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 2010, heavy monsoons led to devastating floods in Pakistan that destroyed 11,000 schools. Thousands of additional schools had to be used as community shelters, preventing them from operating as…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The unanticipated transitions to virtual schooling due to COVID-19 exposed the lack of digital resources among Black families in the United States, including access to Wi-Fi and technological savviness, a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “I’m here to get rid of my dad and charge him with conservatorship abuse,” Britney Spears told a California court on July 14, 2021. She said that he was ruining…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It is long past time to stop calling events like Hurricanes Sandy, Katrina, and now Harvey and Irma, natural disasters. There is no such thing. These may be natural events.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Many rural Black homeowners are denied federal disaster relief because of an informal system of property inheritance common in the South, reports Hannah Dreier of The Washington Post. Under the “heirs’ property” system,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Imagine the following career trajectory. An elementary school student goes on a field trip to a science center where she flies a plane and walks in space—virtually of course. Several…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In June of 2018, two Monterey County site inspectors visited a Salinas cannabis farm, where they encountered a small group of farmworkers who they suspected had been trafficked. The farmworkers,…