This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Through The Mission Continues Fellowship Program, Eric volunteered at a nonprofit in Harlem that provided shelter and social services to homeless refugees and political asylees. From there, he joined The…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Six weeks after Hurricane Harvey hit, on a humid evening in early October, mold was growing up the sides of houses. Workers had stripped the town hall down to its…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Days into the academic year as Hurricane Harvey barreled into Texas and moved north, Penn’s Student Intervention Services connected with the Registrar’s Office to identify students from the area in its path and notified…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. I think there’s broad misconception that community members are just waiting for the city or state to invest and revitalize their neighborhoods. The reality is that residents have been very…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The 7.1 magnitude earthquake that hit central Mexico on September 19, now referred in the country as the 19s, has shaken awake many parts of the country—among them, civil society.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Buried beneath all the destruction from Hurricane Maria — classrooms ravaged beyond repair, a month or more of school closures, power outages and food shortages, pervasive student trauma — Julia…
Political prisoners aren’t the only ones being tortured — the vast majority of judicial torture happens in ordinary cases, even in ‘functioning’ legal systems. Social activist Karen Tse shows how…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. What do you think of people in poverty? Maybe what Jessica Jackley once did: “they” need “our” help, in the form of a few coins in a jar. The co-founder…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This year’s theme for World Cities Day, “Innovative Governance, Open Cities,” emphasizes the implementation of the global New Urban Agenda and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development through the creation…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. You would think a question like ‘is inequality going up or down?’ would be relatively easy to answer, but sadly it is not. The first thing to say is that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season, which runs through November, has already seen two of the strongest storms on record, with hurricanes Irma and Harvey bringing extreme winds, torrential rain and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Between 2000 and 2016, 500 million people gained access to electricity. That pace is expected to continue to 2030. That will still leave 674 million people (compared with 1.1 billion…