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The long pandemic – now in its fourth major wave in the US, with a death toll reaching over 900,000 – has so deeply impacted daily life that it is…

Diverse representative leadership in the United States is taking on deeper meaning in 2022 – especially for the nation’s 22.9 million Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders who call the country home. Anti-Asian…

A recently published study exposed what authors say is an “unhealthy conflict” in judicial systems, “between using fines and fees as both a source of revenue and punishment, and said…

Severe heat kills more people in the United States than any other hazardous weather-related event. As climate change accelerates, the sweltering heat will become much more extreme, and the associated mortality rate will…

Here are some of the building blocks of our foundation advocacy journey, which is relatively new: Advocacy can include many different elements, large and small. Provide board members with examples…

The last few years have seen significant victories for the guaranteed income movement — the push to simply give people cash with no strings attached. Pilot programs in places ranging…

The governing of public schools in many communities is nearing total collapse. From coast to coast, border to border, local school boards are fighting over matters ranging from painting over…

How many formerly incarcerated people are jobless at the moment? A good guess would be 60%, to generalize from a new report released by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). The report…

As the 2022 midterm election season gets underway, speculation is already mounting that it’s going to be another banner year for female candidates. Early reports suggest that Black women and Republican women are especially poised to…

This past spring, we were in Chinatown San Francisco visiting low-income Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) youth who live in 150 square foot tenements with their families, sharing bathrooms and…

Miners and ranchers may have put Colorado’s economy on the map, but industries such as aerospace, finance, and outdoor recreation are diversifying the economic portfolio of the business-friendly state. From…

Supporting mental health and emotional well-being for changemakers boosts resilience, retention, and social impact, experience from The Wellbeing Project – an initiative co-created with Ashoka, Impact Hub, Porticus, the Skoll Foundation, and the…