This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Forty years into the HIV/AIDS epidemic, Black women continue to bear the highest burden of HIV among women. Although Black women represent only 13% of the female population, they accounted…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Residential energy use represents roughly one-fifth of annual greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. A team of researchers used data from 60 million individual United States households to look…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In October 2018, the Mayor of San Francisco, in collaboration with Tipping Point Community, launched the Rising Up campaign to halve homelessness among people ages 18 to 24. To reach…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The short animated cartoon starts out with an animal-rights activist trying to pass out pamphlets in front of a signboard with a pig on it. Despite his enthusiasm, no one…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As public trust in the media dips, hundreds of thousands of donors are banding together to strengthen nonprofit newsrooms — organizations that are informing their communities, holding power to account,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Visitors didn’t trek to this exhibit to view famous works of art or historic artifacts. They were at Boston University to visit “The Wonder of Learning,” a traveling exhibit highlighting…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The phrase “school-to-prison pipeline” has long been used to describe how schools respond to disciplinary problems with excessively stringent policies that create prison-like environments and funnel children who don’t fall…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We discussed how philanthropy can start to advance racial equity in the first two parts of this blog series: Developing a Shared Language and Introducing an Anti-Racist Intersectional Frame. Now,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. While most first-year college students in a new study had positive feelings about computing and computer-related majors and jobs, gender and socioeconomic status seemed to play a role in whether…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When the world’s largest pork producer and a major public utility announced they would team up to turn hog manure from North Carolina swine farms into energy, they billed their…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Remote work, changes in ridership and financial pressures created by the pandemic revealed the strengths and weaknesses of current transit networks. At the CoMotion LA conference last week, transportation leaders…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In-person schooling is back across the country this school year, but fewer students than normal are regularly attending class, according to data emerging from states and school districts. Statewide daily…