This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As the national conversation about racial disparities continues, it’s important to ensure that we are including solutions to address the racial wealth gap. In 2016, the median white family had ten…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “There are many reasons that people become activists on social justice issues, but anyone who is familiar with the civil rights movement of the 1960s could tell you that racism…
Drought and wildfire in the West, rising seas and erosion in the Mississippi River Delta, and erratic weather patterns throughout the entire country are destabilizing rural and Tribal economies and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As we seek to move our Latinx- and Black-owned businesses past survival mode and seek to build a more equitable economy in the face of an unprecedented pandemic and ongoing…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s no secret that the COVID-19 pandemic has taken a disproportionate toll on people of color, and in underinvested places—in the form of higher death rates, steeper unemployment, and deeper…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. What if you made it much easier for workers of color to become business owners, and thus build wealth much faster? What if you offered creative, revenue-based loans to underserved…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “Grameen America, a nonprofit that provides loans to help low-income entrepreneurs, is doing all it can to aid Black women whose businesses have been hurt by the pandemic. Its goal…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. CEP’s latest research report, Persevering Through Crisis: The State of Nonprofits, provides further evidence of the devastating impact of 2020 on nonprofits — and how the crises of the past year hit…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Not too long ago, I chatted with a successful entrepreneur who had started four failed companies before his big break. Time after time, failure after failure, investors continued to believe…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The unanticipated transitions to virtual schooling due to COVID-19 exposed the lack of digital resources among Black families in the United States, including access to Wi-Fi and technological savviness, a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It is long past time to stop calling events like Hurricanes Sandy, Katrina, and now Harvey and Irma, natural disasters. There is no such thing. These may be natural events.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Many rural Black homeowners are denied federal disaster relief because of an informal system of property inheritance common in the South, reports Hannah Dreier of The Washington Post. Under the “heirs’ property” system,…