This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Canadian women have long suffered the professional and financial consequences of COVID-19, but new research indicates that this impact could be long-lasting. According to a study published by the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) on…
Even before the pandemic and associated economic fallout, one in four working adults in the US earned a wage insufficient to lift a small family out of poverty. The impact…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The City of Pittsburgh is implementing an “Equitable Street Tree Investment Strategy” to better distribute and maintain tree canopies in low-income and low-canopy neighborhoods as it pursues a goal to plant 100,000…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. From redefining the idea of beauty to eliminating the stigma of mental health issues, social activism comes in many forms. And this drive to bring change to communities has made…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. First and foremost, our model of venture philanthropy generates investment for social good by betting on the potential of people. As practitioners of venture philanthropy, we work to catalyze economic…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Families who receive federal housing subsidies are among the poorest and most disadvantaged households in the United States. The federal government helps over two million of these families meet their…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The pandemic has taken a heavy toll on Main Street, with small businesses across the U.S. closing by the thousands. But as bad as the overall scene is, for minority-owned…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As schools across the country begin reopening after months of closure, some districts are learning that hazardous material accumulated in their plumbing systems, and experts say stagnant water poses health…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Murray J. Côté, Texas A&M University; Tiffany A. Radcliff, Texas A&M University, and Walter Thomas Casey II, Texas A&M University-Texarkana The governors of Texas and Mississippi announced that they were…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When I look at the kind of change that an organization or cause is trying to create, I tend to take a more expansive view informed by two simple questions:…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. I don’t know anything about public health. And none of us know what the world is going to look like after COVID-19. Especially as loved ones and people around us…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Ernesto Fonseca, CEO of the Hacienda Community Development Corporation (CDC), one of the largest CDCs in Oregon, Fonseca helps provide affordable housing, youth and family services, homeownership education, and small business…