Powerful storm systems triggered flash flooding across the U.S. in late July, inundating St. Louis neighborhoods with record rainfall and setting off mudslides in eastern Kentucky, where at least 16…
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This post highlights some of the ways animal advocacy groups are transforming the food system and other industries by increasing the availability of animal-free products. Our goal here is not…
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If you look at homes on real estate websites today, you’ll likely see risk ratings for flooding, hurricanes and even wildfires. In theory, summarizing risk information like this should help…
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Murder rates in rural America “have soared during the pandemic,” report Dan Frosch, Kris Maher and Zusha Elinson of The Wall Street Journal. Rebecca McCoy, prosecutor in White County, Arkansas,…
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Decades after the Civil Rights Movement and the abolition of explicit racial discrimination, Black households in the United States still hold only a fraction of the wealth of White households.…
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Click here for more.From a global pandemic to the recent invasion of Ukraine, globally impactful disasters are an increasingly frequent part of our reality, and thus an important factor as funders consider grantmaking…
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A community garden, a jobs program, meal distribution, community clean-ups: These are the amenities and services that unhoused people and mutual aid organizations created in Los Angeles’ Echo Park after…
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It is now widely recognized that current racial economic gaps are the product of generations of both overtly racist public policies and more hidden biases embedded in choices, policies, and…
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In collaboration with The Farmers Market Coalition (FMC), Black food system leaders and experts recently released a Toolkit to help farmers market managers improve the farmers market experience for Black,…
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A recent survey by the Hope Center of more than 195,000 two-year and four-year college students found that about half experienced housing insecurity and about one in seven reported they either experienced…
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Sitting on a wooden bench in a remote village in Rwanda, a 47-year-old woman named Esther, a mother of three, explains how she’ll spend more than 850,000 Rwandan francs. It’s a…
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Many researchers want their research to influence public policy. Many charitable donors also want to influence / improve public policy and often fund the production of research and other activities…