This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “I want to be MacKenzie Scott when I grow up.” That was my first thought when I heard she had donated $10 million to the Center for Disaster Philanthropy’s (CDP)…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. School and district officials are wading deeply into the process of deciding how to spend billions of new federal education dollars included in the latest COVID-19 relief bill, the American Rescue Plan. Plans…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Kids are eager to play ball, and parents are eager to be back on the sidelines supporting them. But COVID-19 cases have risen in places where kids have been playing…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the U.S., Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit that provides advice to charities and individuals, found ultra-wealthy American families donated just 1.2% of their assets to charity in 2017. While in the U.K. the median level…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Several years ago, Pascale Sykes Foundation established Thrive South Jersey, a fund managed by New Jersey Community Capital (NJCC), a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI). The purpose was to provide…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Restaurants across the U.S. are desperate to hire as outdoor dining season begins, indoor dining restrictions lift, and vaccination rates trend upwards. But despite the hospitality industry losing nearly one-third of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Poplar schools lose about a fifth of their teachers each year — more than double the national attrition rate — and principals have struggled to fill vacancies across most grade levels and subjects.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When I started a new role in fundraising, fresh out of college, the organization I worked for received a generous donation from one of our regular contributors through his donor-advised…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over the last several months, we’ve explored the importance of addressing the social determinants of health in order to advance health equity. Social determinants are the conditions in which people are born,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Two weeks after the first U.S. case of COVID-19 was identified in Snohomish County, Washington, in early 2020, my dad had a stroke at his home just across Puget Sound.…
To track how well different countries and U.S. states are responding to the pandemic—and to make valid cross-country and cross-state comparisons of key outcomes—uniform measures are needed. Researchers evaluate the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Jemez Pueblo and Laguna Pueblo tribes, located in New Mexico, are suing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its rollback of protections on waterways vital for their food systems and…