This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When Dr. Nishila Moodley took the stage to receive a special achievement award, 700 scientists, clinicians, outreach specialists and community members attending the annual meeting of the HIV Vaccine Trials…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Last year, the Center for Universal Education (CUE) at Brookings collaborated with the United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI) to survey 125 organizations working on girls’ education to answer those…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Sitting on top of a waste incineration facility near Zurich, a new carbon capture plant is now sucking CO2 out of the air to sell to its first customer.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The story we tell ourselves about the refugee crisis is very different from the reality. A new visualization shows the flow of refugees around the world from 2000 to 2015,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Globally, soaring amounts of greenhouse gas emissions are driving climate change and resulting in rising sea levels and more frequent and severe extreme weather events. The effects of climate change pay…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This paper was published to inform the round table talks on ‘the importance of housing, land and property (HLP) rights in humanitarian response’ held in Geneva. The NRC and IFRC…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The language was rich with promise — the “Grand Bargain”, the “Participation Revolution.” At the World Humanitarian Summit one year ago in Istanbul, 30 of the biggest donors and aid providers committed…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 14 is to “conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources.” To achieve this, we will need to create a new blue…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Quality of life overall is improving, but personal rights and safety, and tolerance an inclusion are all showing a troubling decline, according to the recently released 2017 Social Progress Index,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Instead of just using the stock market, more and more foundations putting their endowments into projects that help the world–including hitting the Sustainable Development Goals. In 2015, the United Nations laid…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In a rare move, major religious leaders ― from Pope Francis to the Dalai Lama ― issued a joint appeal Wednesday asking people to follow a simple bit of advice:…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. From the editors of Nonprofit Quarterly: The following mini–case study is part of a series of studies submitted as part of the graduate course “The Nonprofit Sector: Concepts and Theories,”…