This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As the CEO of Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies, a nonprofit organization that works with people who have disabilities, Marcie Roth spent the past few weeks coordinating response efforts with…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. You’d think that nonprofits would lead the way when it comes to diversity. After all, many serve the downtrodden, including people of color, immigrants and the poor. But no. A…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Since the new millennium there has been a greater sense of urgency among some of the world’s richest to give to charity as much of their wealth as possible during…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Uganda hosts more than 500,000 refugees, making it the third-largest host country in Africa (after Ethiopia and Kenya). Its refugees come from a wide variety of unsettled neighboring countries, including…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Despite significant efforts by reform-minded government and nonprofits, roughly one in seven DC residents have criminal records that may preclude them from finding jobs. Local ban-the-box legislation, which allows employers…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For a refugee trapped in an overcrowded camp on an island in Greece, it often isn’t clear how to prepare for an asylum interview–a step in the process of getting…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Congressional efforts to legalize unauthorized immigrants who were brought to the United States as children have been pending in Congress since 2001, with the DREAM Act garnering notable bipartisan support…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Here are 10 things immigrant families can find in the district’s resource guide to be safe at school and at home. You have the right to remain silent, even if…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 1997, Beverly Daniel Tatum, one of the country’s foremost authorities on the psychology of racism, answered a recurring question that surfaced in her work with teachers, administrators, and parent…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Roughly 800,000 undocumented youth stand to lose their ability to work, learn, and live in the United States following the Trump administration’s decision to end the program known as Deferred…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In collaboration with open innovation platform OpenIDEO, Minneapolis-based GHR Foundation is inviting social innovators to come together to address urgent global challenges at the intersections of peace, prosperity and planet in radically new ways.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Enforced disappearances are among the cruelest of crimes. To the kidnapping, torture, and in many cases, murder of the victim, perpetrators intentionally create fear and uncertainty about the fate of…