This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For months, Maria Cristina was hesitant about getting a COVID-19 vaccine. Her fears came from social media, where she heard ample amounts of misinformation about what was in the vaccine…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Information is power, but only if it comes in a form that makes sense to people, that’s accessible and coherent. Branden DuPont’s mission, in a nutshell, is to turn scattered…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This World Food Day came at a critical inflection point for our food systems. There is broad recognition that the way we eat now is failing to protect our health…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Investing in programs that reduce Texans’ energy consumption could cut demand by the same amount of power expected to be generated by a proposed fleet of gas-fired power plants and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As the pandemic rages on, more and more organizations are acknowledging that this crisis didn’t create disparities, it exacerbated existing inequities. And it raised the stakes. As a social impact…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Like many, I have spent oodles of downtime on airplanes and on vacation devouring legal thrillers by the best-selling storyteller, John Grisham. Though John’s work is always a page-turner, it is…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For the last five years, Houston ISD’s governance has been a mess, to be blunt. One superintendent lasted just two years and was followed by two interim superintendents over a three-year period.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Population density and long-term exposure to air pollution influenced the speed at which COVID-19 spread through metropolitan areas, research finds. During the “first wave” of COVID-19 in the United States,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Research shows that implicit bias and barriers even come from people and groups with the best intentions. In the philanthropic sector, people with disabilities are grossly underrepresented within funding institutions. And given…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Part six in a multi-part series highlighting successes of Clean Energy Districts (CED) and policies to make CEDs “universal local” institutions. Read part one, part two, part three, part four, and part five.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Power operates in every domain of human life: in families and communities; in social, civic, and economic organizations; and in political states and regimes. Reclaiming democracy means contending with power.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. McDowell County, located in North Carolina’s southern Appalachian Mountains, is overwhelmingly white. African-Americans are approximately 4 percent of the population, and less than 3 percent of residents are Latinx. McDowell’s…