At the national level, the connection between the public and government seems broken. Trust in government has been declining for decades, and in the most recent Edelman Trust Barometer survey,…
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Click here for more.Racial equity is a huge buzzword in philanthropy today. Many individual donors and foundation leaders are thinking about why they might get involved and also how to pursue racial equity…
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Here are just some ways businesses might foster more and deeper relationships to help their communities: Create a committee designated to increase company philanthropy. As the saying goes, “if it’s everyone’s…
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A broad ecosystem of nonprofits, coalitions, and leaders of color are working across the United States to transform the criminal legal system to one that is just and equitable. Insights…
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Click here for more.The power in this approach is that we get to pick our own champions. Billy Kinney, one of the Native members of Fund for Shared Insight’s participatory grantmaking group for the…
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Click here for more.Instead of relying on funders, governments, and nonprofits to engage communities and incorporate their input into institutionally led strategies for improving people’s lives, peer-driven change occurs when constituents identify their…
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Can it really be true that most people in jail are legally innocent? How much of mass incarceration is a result of the war on drugs, or the profit motives…
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Click here for more.Coming out of the pandemic is an opportunity to build more equitable workplaces—but only if employers act now. Otherwise, burnout is likely going to either drive women out of the…
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More than 1 million fewer students are enrolled in college now than before the pandemic began.” So stated the January NPR report citing data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. From 2019 to…
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Click here for more.The overall goal, to flesh out the language of the 1949 Fair Housing Act, is to have enough decent housing, in locations where people want to live, with sufficient opportunities…
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Click here for more.Fay Twersky, vice president at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, recently launched The Listening Post, a monthly note dedicated to lifting up exceptional ideas, voices, and questions that can help all…
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When Charlie, a 10-year-old boy, came in for his first visit, he didn’t look at me or my colleague. Angry and crying, he insisted to us that he was cisgender…