This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As the demography of America changes, the face of philanthropy is changing along with it. While African Americans have a tradition of giving, the 2016 U.S. Trust® Study of High…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Mexicans arrive in the United States with less education than other immigrants, often having spent just seven or eight years in school. Nearly 40 percent have less than a ninth-grade…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The intention to generate social or environmental benefit is key to impact investing. But a tax break can be an additional incentive. Among the many provisions of the Republican tax…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. One day in prison costs $79, but a day on probation costs only $3.42. This is a statistic provided by Clean Decisions, a Washington, D.C.-based startup that employs ex-offenders. Will Avila,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Liam Chinn, a social justice advocate in Oakland, California, remembers meeting a young man who had been arrested for stealing a cell phone and assaulting the victim in the process.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The plight of displaced people, especially Syrian refugees, has been largely ignored by the mass media since this human rights tragedy dominated news headlines during the fall of 2015. Yet this…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Students filled the New York City council chambers on December 7th to share their experiences in segregated schools and offer solutions. But they faced a mostly empty dais: Only two…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Closed borders, racism, xenophobic attacks, rejected asylum applications, poverty and lengthy waits. These experiences are what many refugees and migrants in Greece say defined 2017 for them. More than 60,000…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The release of the Performance of Australian Aid report in May showed the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade was nearing an important target set by Julie Bishop as one her first orders of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The nonprofit sector has a board diversity problem. A recent BoardSource report showed that nonprofit boards are no more racially and ethnically diverse than they were two decades ago and that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Two sisters from Saudi Arabia, who are currently in Turkey, are desperately trying to avoid being returned to the kingdom, where they could be imprisoned, their lawyer has told Al Jazeera. Serdarhan…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Beyond the numbers, our DACA youth are teachers, nurses, firefighters, non-profit workers, and the laborers building the infrastructure and roads that keep society running. When advocates and allies of Dreamers…