This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Sixty-five million people were displaced from their homes by conflict and disaster in 2016. It’s not just a crisis; it’s a test of who we are and what we stand…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. According to a report released in June 2017, many nonprofit and foundation leaders assume that people of color either do not aspire to be leaders, lack the proper education credentials,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When an NAACP task force released a report Wednesday calling for new restrictions on charter schools, one of the panel’s members took up the mic to refute accusations that the process…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Women and girls are increasingly leading–in politics and business, across academia and the social sector. Yet there are still gross and, in some cases, growing gaps in opportunity to close,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If most job seekers use LinkedIn, it’s less useful if you’ve spent some or all of your adult life incarcerated and don’t have positions to list or colleagues to add.…
Britt-Marie Cole-Johnson of Wallingford, CT, tells us why she believes working with young girls is the best way to effect change in a community. I feel very strongly that when…
Close your eyes and picture and engineer. You probably weren’t envisioning Debbie Sterling. Debbie Sterling is an engineer and founder of GoldieBlox, a toy company out to inspire the next…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The tragic events in Charlottesville, VA, and President Trump’s failure to unequivocally repudiate the ideology of neo Nazis/white supremacists/alt right groups and their violence presents American philanthropy with a unique…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For 10 years — the first decade I was in school — all my teachers were white women. As a Mexican-American kid, I didn’t get the chance to have a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Women suffer a significant loss of confidence as they develop into adults while confidence in boys grows during their teenage years, a new study has found. Researchers found that while…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. I guess growing up, most men in my environment would have said that mutual respect between the sexes exists and should be practiced, but underneath, the old paradigm of inequality…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This week, headlines across a diverse array of media outlets proclaimed that at least one Google employee was so antagonistic to women that he circulated a 10-page “anti-diversity screed.” But…