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    The U.S. Vaccination Effort is Gaining Steam

    Vox Feb 20, 2021

    According to Our World in Data, the US first breached the weekly average of 1 million doses a day on January 23. Less than three weeks later, on February 11, the…

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    The Role of Data in Philanthropy

    Johnson Center for Philanthropy Feb 20, 2021

    It is time to retire the adage that individuals and organizations are “swimming in data” or “lost in a sea of data.” Those sentiments may have been apt in 2010…

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    Utilizing Schools and Teaching to Address Climate Change [Video]

    The Aspen Institute Feb 19, 2021

    While schools transition toward sustainable operations and build resilience, educators can support teaching and learning on sustainability, the environment, and climate change to help ensure over 50 million students are…

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    Creating a Corporate Philanthropy Program Focused on Race and Social Equity

    3BL Media Feb 19, 2021

    Over the past year, race and social equity has ascended as a top priority, and organizations of all sizes, across industries, have been looking at how they can do better…

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    Hunger and Health: The Devastating Impact of Structural Racism [Video]

    The Aspen Institute Feb 19, 2021

    COVID-19 has had a disproportionate effect on low-income, communities of color, but conversations about racial disparities mask the real public health emergency – racism. Poor access to healthcare and bias…

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    Childcare Workers in the Pandemic

    The Hechinger Report Feb 19, 2021

    Child care workers, the vast majority of whom are women, have always faced a long list of pressures. A 2012 study found that Head Start teachers, who serve children from low-income…

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    Is America In Decline?

    Stanford Social Innovation Review Feb 19, 2021

    After the noble aspirations of post-Civil War Reconstruction to build a unified nation faded into the squalid Gilded Age of corruption and exploitation at the dawn of the 20th century,…

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    Combatting Homelessness: Lessons from COVID-19

    CityLab

    We have heard for too long that there is no true solution to homelessness, with excuse after excuse on why we just can’t do it. Well, guess what? During this…

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    How Philanthropy Can Strategically Address a Crisis

    Forbes

    Global markets have been affected by the current climate, and the fear of a recession is high. How long this economic and financial uncertainty will last — not just for…

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    What Happens to Charitable Giving When the Economy Falters?

    The Conversation

    As the new coronavirus pandemic sends the economy into a tailspin, Patrick Rooney, an economist at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, and Jon Bergdoll, a philanthropy statistician,…

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    Political Polarization Affects How We Interpret Disasters

    Grist Feb 19, 2021

    In the midst of a freezing cold winter storm that left millions of Texans without power or heat, Republican Governor Greg Abbott appeared on Fox News on Tuesday to bash…

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    For a Successful Vaccine Distribution Model, Look to Alaska

    Stateline Feb 19, 2021

    Most states’ vaccine distributions have been slow, confusing, and erratic, with balky signup websites, arbitrary changes in eligibility, and frequent mismatches between supply and demand. But a few states with…

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