This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As a funder, a community organizer and an equity consultant, Jason Baisden, Paula Swepson and Mary Snow work together to support locally driven changes across historically excluded neighborhoods in McDowell…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Emily Griffith, founder and CEO of the health food company Lil Bucks, found herself in a tough spot in mid-2020. “I was in the valley of death,” she shared, referring…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. America’s skills gap has been widely discussed. The friction between postsecondary institutions failing to properly prepare job seekers and unrealistic employer expectations has led to seven million unfilled openings. Not…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. 2020 was arguably one of the most difficult years in American history, challenging our resilience and surfacing enduring and systemic challenges to our collective health and well-being. As we continue…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Shyra Adams vividly remembers the days after the death of Tony Robinson, an unarmed Black teenager killed in 2015 by police in her hometown of Madison, Wisconsin. Angry and distraught…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Amid the dual crises of a global pandemic and a national reckoning with systemic racism, the U.S. philanthropic sector faces tremendous challenges and opportunities. CEP’s Foundations Respond to Crisis study found that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For many people, trying to get the COVID-19 vaccine has been a lesson in frustration. The vaccine supply is limited in many areas, creating confusion over who can get a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A majority of Boston residents will receive electricity via a new supplier starting Monday, the culmination of a years-in-the-making Community Choice Electricity program developed by the City of Boston Environment Department and partners.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Despite being around for decades, many people still don’t know what CDFIs are or how to use them. I want to give an overview of CDFIs and provide some useful resources…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In late July 2019, a group of migrant farmworkers from south Texas was working in a cornfield in DeWitt County, Ill., when suddenly a crop duster flew overhead, spraying them…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In December, with an oil lease sale looming and the Trump administration trying to push through a seismic study for oil exploration before leaving the White House, the pressure was on for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The old bromide “whatever goes up must come down” applies as much to markets as to objects tossed in the air, which is to say that while economic downturns may…