This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Think back to the summer of 2014. Social media feeds were filled with videos of people getting drenched with ice-cold water to raise money and awareness for ALS, the neurodegenerative…
Roughly $11.9 billion in philanthropic capital was pledged for racial equity in 2020 according to Candid – however, new research from the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity (PRE) has found that only…
As a seventh grader, Emma Lembke was one of the last in her friend group in Birmingham, Alabama, to get on social media. When she did, she says she soon…
Philanthropy New York CEO Kathryn O’Neal-Dunham takes a holistic approach to her work and is well-attuned to how relationship dynamics within and between organizations impact outcomes. During her tenure, she has worked…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Diversion is the intervention that has the greatest impact on the community level for those experiencing homelessness. It helps people avoid entering shelter and/or the homeless response system by resolving…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Democracy Creates the Circumstances of its Own Demise When Simon Sachs, my great, great grandfather, left Thüringen, Germany in the early 1850s and journeyed across the Baltic Sea to start…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the most prosperous places in the United States, home to technological giants, entrepreneurial universities, and cities where more billionaires per capita reside…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Ted Turner has a line. (He has a lot of them.) He is one to say with a twinkle in his eye: If only I were more humble, I would…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. While floating hundreds of miles above the earth’s surface, India’s first astronaut Rakesh Sharma was asked what India looked like from space. In response, he quoted Muhammad Iqbal’s poem The Anthem…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When Hurricane Maria slammed into Dominica in 2017, 160 mph winds flattened just about everything — wiping out houses, schools, health clinics, and farms — and left the island nation…
For those who work in philanthropy, the chaos that began in early 2020 have propelled more much-needed critical introspection than the field has ever faced. The inequities laid bare by…
In the months after the advance federal Child Tax Credit cash payments ended in December 2021, low-income families with children struggled the most to afford enough food, research finds. The…