This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Application processes—whether for jobs, funding, or other opportunities—are full of potential moments for bias to occur. In launching our venture studio, Ventures for Shared Prosperity, we knew that recruiting the right…
Philanthropy is evolving. Under the current social and economic climate, there is an increasing need to address the role of philanthropy in the realm of racial justice and gender disparities.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “In a year bookended by a racial reckoning and a sputtering recovery, social sector leaders are driving a vision of a just economic system that serves everyone. That’s why the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “The partnership will fund impactful programs, projects, and collaborations designed to provide neighborhood-based two-generation supports that advance racial and economic equity, such as early childhood education, quality K-12 schools, and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As an organization founded on over 30 years of grantmaking based on learning, humility, and trust, we at Thousand Currents are not immune, nor phased by fundamentally uncomfortable questions, including…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Philanthropy relies on the amassed wealth of families and institutions that have benefited from systemic racism. As a result, the institution has a power imbalance in where funds go and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The good news? Enrollment in new cancer therapy clinical trials has returned to normal, at least within one large trial network, a year after the pandemic began. The bad news?…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If you started working from home in the last 16 months, you’re in good company. Over 100 million Americans transitioned from in-person to remote work during the pandemic. And if you…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Rashid Shabazz is the inaugural executive director of Critical Minded, a grantmaking and advocacy initiative founded in 2017 by the Ford and Nathan Cummings foundations to support cultural critics of color in the United States…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This is one of those weeks where it’s both exhausting and exhilarating to be a corporate climate journalist — the former, because the data about the damage that’s already been…
In many Silicon Valley neighborhoods where the majority of residents are BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, or People of Color) or are of undocumented status, there are not enough opportunities for community…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. IN THIS SECTION, WE SEEK to contextualize anti-Sharia legislation within a broader framework of increasing anti-Muslim sentiment in the US. The rise of the anti-Sharia movement, and the creation of ALAC,…