This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Sweet Livity’s mission — “Values toward wellness” — guides its business model and services, based on years of community development work in diverse urban and rural communities. The company has…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When Hurricane Michael made landfall in Florida in October 2018, June Barrett, a Black Jamaican home care worker, rushed to take care of their elderly patients in Miami. Barrett had…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Nonprofits are tackling humanity’s most complex problems — but without the fundamental infrastructure afforded our private sector counterparts. There is an old saying about Ginger Rogers: She did everything Fred…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Isolation, quarantine, and social distancing may be an effective strategy when dealing with a global pandemic like the Coronavirus. But, unfortunately, in a global economy that has been plagued by…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Longstanding racial and ethnic disparities in the United States have hurt not only the people who experience the disparities but have hurt all Americans by depressing U.S. economic output by…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, it would cost $20 billion to end homelessness in the United States. That is a big number, yes, but let’s put…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over two days in the summer of 1910, wildfires roared across the bone-dry forests of the inland Northwestern U.S., the Rockies, and parts of British Columbia. Whole towns burned. The…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Feed the Fridge, a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit organization, is helping to alleviate food insecurity while keeping restaurants in business. The organization operates by placing refrigerators around the D.C. metro area and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Even as the COVID-19 pandemic raged across the world, the number of people forcibly displaced in 2020 reached the highest level ever recorded as ongoing and new conflicts forced people…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Venus Moore had been released from the California psychiatric hospital where she was confined for years. But she was far from free. The pandemic was raging, and her sister could…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. All children deserve to be protected from harm. The health of our children is only possible when each and every one is protected. And yet, far too many children and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Widespread protests following the killing of George Floyd on May 25 by a Minneapolis police officer have brought renewed attention to the long legacy of U.S. police brutality—amidst a raging Covid-19 pandemic—the…