This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. More than a decade after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is experiencing something of an economic renaissance, with new business starts out-pacing national averages for years. The benefits of revival haven’t…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Sports are often cited as a unifying force in society with the power to bring strangers together to cheer for their hometown team (or help each other climb greased-up light poles).…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The tax cuts that went into effect this month have nonprofits and donors alike scrambling to learn more about how they might affect charitable giving. WHAT CHANGED? Congress introduced temporary…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In between trips to Syria and Somalia, Mark Lowcock, the head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, was in Davos last week, speaking to the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Three months after Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico, Matilsha Marxuach could finally turn on the lights in her San Juan shop. The Caribbean island was still slowly recovering from the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s becoming clear that certain interventions work better than others in the fight to end modern slavery, according to a recent report from the Freedom Fund. The Freedom Fund was…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Host Eric Liu reveals how thinking and acting in networks can grow power exponentially. He explores the strategy of harnessing people power to change the social and political equation. Vendors…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Washington, DC, continues to grow and develop, with more people moving into the city and being born here every day. As the city grows, development pressures will continue to mount. When…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For the past two decades, U.S. anti-poverty policy has coalesced around the idea that work should be at the center of anti-poverty programs. Bipartisan welfare reform in the 1990s focused…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Our recent study of a homeownership support nonprofit in New Mexico called Homewise suggests there is an alternative way of providing sustainable homeownership to people who don’t have enough money for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Rosie Burton, a British doctor based in South Africa has just returned from one month in Bangladesh, where she was working in a diphtheria treatment centre run by MSF. We…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This month’s tragic mudslides in Montecito, California are a reminder that natural hazards lurk on the doorsteps of many U.S. homes, even in affluent communities. Similar events occur every year around the…