This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. After 18 months of shuttered schools, children across the country are back in class — but thousands of teachers and other critical school workers across the country are not. Faced…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The past 25 years have seen a proliferation of investment movements promising to make capitalism sustainable. These include impact investing; socially responsible investing; corporate social responsibility; shared value; conscious capitalism;…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Magnify Community began as a small and nimble philanthropic innovation lab in late 2018, working with urgency and a three-year time horizon to start to change norms around local giving…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A new app called TranZap aims to connect trans people with gender-affirming healthcare providers. The TranZap, the first of its kind in the area of healthcare technology, will collate shared…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Groups committed to diversity, justice, and equity work, like my own team at Philanthropy Together, know that this is not something we can solve overnight. Our internal and institutional racial…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The summer of 2021 was devilishly hot across much of the U.S. Just five minutes in an attic guest room with no air conditioning could be enough to leave a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Earlier this month, 16 years after Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Ida battered southeast Louisiana and left hundreds of thousands of people without power. The storm, one of the strongest to hit Louisiana,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Ensuring that young people are both prepared and motivated to be the next stewards of our democracy is a crucial and oft-ignored condition for an improved political system. To remake…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Restoring native habitats to at least 20% of the world’s land currently being used by humans…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Charitable giving by affluent Americans in 2020 averaged $43,195, a 48 percent increase over $29,269 in 2017, a report from Bank of America and Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy finds. Based on…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Local leaders and institutions have the expertise and inherent capacities to solve their problems and help humanity address the world’s most pressing systemic challenges. However, they need grant and investor…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. COVID-19 didn’t just reveal a broken child care system. A confluence of events dramatically worsened the frayed patchwork of child care programs in the US, after significant drops in center enrollment when parents lost jobs,…