This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. From Peru to Qatar, young changemakers from the UN Foundation’s +Social Good community are pushing for change even though 2020 changed our world. Here are some ways this global network…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Civil society responses to COVID-19 in South Africa have shown remarkable agility, scope, and impact in the last nine months, especially in responding to the most-pressing problem in many vulnerable…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Our study aims to gather information on how states, territories, and Washington, DC, communicated with jurisdictions effectively to provide time-sensitive information on school meal programs as a result of the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Sharon Austin, University of Florida On Apr. 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, while assisting striking sanitation workers. Back then, over a half century…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In recent months, we have seen an increase in the attention paid to informal workers, both in policy and media circles. Some of these narratives have been positive, recognising the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For the descendants of enslaved Africans in the United States, entrepreneurship represents more than just owning a business and pursuing the proverbial American Dream. Instead, the ability for Black people…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. I invite donors to act as boldly as the Black and brown women whose bodies are the front lines of change. In Georgia, long before the 2020 elections were part of the national news…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Michigan parents, worried about the effect the pandemic is having on their children’s learning, say state leaders need an academic recovery plan to make sure students who fall behind can…
In this episode we unpick the complex relationship between philanthropy and democracy. Does philanthropy undermine democracy, or strengthen it? Do we need to make philanthropy itself more democratic? And if…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. What is wealth? Wealth is more than money and financial assets. Critical to the accumulation and sustainability of wealth is power and agency; a sense of control over one’s life…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. All Brittany Mann thinks about when she’s at work is her infant daughter, Aahliyah. While Mann works 12-hour shifts as a security guard at a women’s homeless shelter in lower…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If all had gone according to plan, the Constitution pipeline would be carrying fracked gas 124 miles from the shale gas fields of Pennsylvania through streams, wetlands, and backyards across…