This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Most companies believe that those who’ve spent time locked up “might be unstable or just unemployable–and all of that is untrue,” Gretchen Peterson, the director of human resources at Dave’s…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In war-torn Syria, children with disabilities are one of the most excluded groups. Livelihoods have been devastated by the conflict and families struggle to make ends meet, which can be…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over the past several decades, cities across the United States have had trouble dealing with abandoned properties as factories close and people move out of urban centers and into the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Seven young men sit around a table covered in textbooks. They are having an animated conversation in a room where bookshelves line the walls. It could be a study group…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The prevention and prosecution of modern slavery and trafficking is of relatively recent interest to private philanthropy; its metrics are still not fully defined. The Global Slavery Index, a project…
Latinos today constitute 18 percent of the United States population – up from roughly one percent in the 1960s. Over the next 40 years, this demographic group will continue to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The U.K. secretary of state for international development pledged 40 million pounds ($54 million) to combat “modern slavery” on Friday in a move celebrated by many in the aid community —…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Amid growing momentum in Congress to pass DREAM Act legislation before the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program expires, critics are arguing that legalization would spur vast new “chain…
Afghanistan has long been a source of migration, both within the region and further afield. Yet as the nature of these movements continues to change, little information is available about…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Now in its third year and as a spate of accusations of sexual assault have swept through the aid industry and beyond, the United Nations-led HeForShe movement, which calls on men to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A billionaire entrepreneur, a former education secretary and the head of a high-performing charter school network came to Capitol Hill together Wednesday to impress upon Congress the urgency of saving…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Advocates campaigning for refugees to have access to safe abortion in humanitarian settings say they have made major progress at a recent high-level meeting — but they added that “political sensitivities”…