This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Nearly 20 million more people faced food crises last year amid armed conflict, the COVID-19 pandemic and weather extremes, and the outlook for this year is again grim, according to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Here’s the deal – we are moving into the most inequitable, complex decade the world has faced in nearly 100 years. That complexity is philanthropy’s context and the inequities are…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. There are 476 million Indigenous Peoples globally, representing 6.2 per cent of the world’s population. By all measures across philanthropy, Indigenous people are underrepresented. Simply put, Indigenous Peoples represent the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Would you drink carbonated beverages made with carbon dioxide captured from the smokestack of a factory or power plant? How would you feel if that captured carbon dioxide were in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The pandemic has been a period of acute trauma at many levels. More than 3 million people have died globally from COVID-19, including over 600,000 in the United States. Doctors…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Food and Drug Administration expanded emergency use authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to include adolescents 12 to 15 years of age on May 10, 2021. The Centers for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The consumer landscape in the US is changing; as Latinos become a more prominent part of the consumer market, companies must adapt to the diversifying cultural dynamics. According to Forbes, “there…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A study commissioned by Round Square and led by a team of researchers from Research Schools International and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, ranks the best methods to nurture intercultural mindsets…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Despite the urgent need to provide immediate relief to women harmed by the COVID-19 pandemic, we cannot ignore the roots of why women are more vulnerable in these crises. The…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When Hurricanes Katrina and Rita swept through Louisiana in 2005, cities like Houston, Dallas, and Baton Rouge took in hundreds of thousands of displaced residents—many of whom eventually stayed in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As the drought outlook for the Western U.S. becomes increasingly bleak, attention is turning once again to groundwater – literally, water stored in the ground. It is Earth’s most widespread…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In addition to its devastating public health impacts, the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated inequality around the world. Poor populations have disproportionately experienced COVID-19 infection while enduring greater financial hardship as…