This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. t was March 15, 2020 when Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the emergency closure of New York City’s schools amid skyrocketing coronavirus infections. (See our time capsule of what that surreal…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Many of us are feeling the “pandemic wall” right now. This is understandable given the multiple crises the past year has wrought that at times feels never-ending. Collectively, we are…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Biden administration’s recent executive order calling for a comprehensive report on climate-related migration and for reorganizing the U.S. migration system comes at a critically important time. Across the United States, floods,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Philanthropy has evolved significantly from its noblesse oblige origins, through federated giving, to the competitive venture philanthropy model which now predominates. In those approaches charities set agendas and funders respond…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Louisiana has never been hard to pinpoint on a map — it’s the only state in the U.S. that looks like a giant boot. At least it did, before the…
This paper presents new estimates of the effects of the City University of New York (CUNY) Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (ASAP) model, evaluated using a randomized controlled trial first…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Who decides about charitable giving in households? Researchers have asked this question for decades, but over the last year as the Women’s Philanthropy Institute has sought to add to this…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As the pandemic took hold in 2020 and exposed disparities across a range of systems — including healthcare and education — many communities and the nonprofits serving them struggled to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Once a primary means of communication, audio-only telephone calls seem increasingly obsolete to millions of Americans who text with their friends and Zoom with their colleagues. However, the COVID-19 pandemic…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 19th century America, every major aspect of daily life was age integrated. Older and younger people worked side by side in the fields of an agrarian economy. Multigenerational households were…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If foundations are serious about moving funding to the communities that are most affected by systemic injustice, then their funding philosophies and practices must evolve. My previous organization RVC and I collaborated…