This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Many lessons were learned during the past year of remote learning, but one remains particularly relevant as classrooms around the country reopen: Schools and families can’t effectively support students without…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When the Covid-19 pandemic disruptions to K-12 schooling took an extraordinary toll on students and their parents, K-12 philanthropy responded. A range of efforts—from shifting project-specific grants to general operating funds to grants…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Shavel’le Olivier relies on Boston’s public transit to do her shopping, run errands, and visit family. She lives in Mattapan, a neighborhood in the southwest corner of the city where…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Journey Foods, an Austin-based food technology company, is launching a new collaboration with colleges and universities to support students in food technology research. The initiative, JourneyLabs, aims to diversify people working…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the early months of 2020, we were getting ready to launch a new Ford Global Fellowship, a 10-year, $50-million investment to support leaders to shift structures and systems of inequality…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. By 2050, the United Nations expects the percentage of the global population residing in cities to increase from 55 to 68 percent. Already, up to 70 percent of the food produced worldwide…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Men are much more likely to die from COVID-19 than women. This is true globally – where the death rate has been about 50% higher for men. Notably, this gap does not appear…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Earlier this summer, Stanford economist Neale Mahoney sounded an alarm with a study he coauthored: Americans have at least $140 billion in unpaid health care bills sitting in collection agencies—making the country’s…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The sobering reality is that while Black Americans make up just 12% of the population, they represent 39% of people experiencing homelessness — the largest share for any population. In Los Angeles…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 pandemic is reversing progress on girls’ and women’s rights, and shining a bright light on social, political, and economic inequities that persist. We are even further away from…
The glue for an inclusive, healthy and responsive democracy—like a healthy relationship—is trust. Democracy requires trust in the political apparatus, such as Congress, as well as trust between its people.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Based in Austin, Texas, St. David’s Foundation serves the Central Texas region (Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, Travis, and Williamson counties) where an estimated 300,000 (14.5 percent) Central Texans lack health insurance. Texas is one of…