This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the months leading up to the Nov. 3 election, many of us were warning that, even if the face of a clear Biden victory, Trump and the Republicans might attempt…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the scheme of the foundation world, the Langeloth Foundation is tiny. Years ago, at a cocktail party, I met someone on the investment side of a large New York-based foundation who…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The fight to save our planet should be about ensuring a long and sustainable future — for everyone. However, as the coronavirus has spread across America, it has laid bare…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Lisa Hagerman is the Director of Programs at DBL Partners, a double bottom line venture capital firm, which she joined in 2011. Lisa is leading the strategy and implementation of double bottom…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “Building back better” requires understanding a community’s needs, ambitions, goals, vulnerability, and capacity. It means local voices must be front and center as plans and decisions are made. But that’s…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “When the crisis struck in March, we immediately thought: ‘Will we need to tap the brakes?’” Brielle Brewick, an Associate Director of Networks at Leading Educators, reflects. “We thought there…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The higher a person’s income, the more likely they were to protect themselves at the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, a new study finds. When…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As the first COVID-19 vaccines are being administered across the United States—developed, tested, and approved with historic speed—countless questions have arisen about what comes next. Is one vaccine better than…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The damage wrought to American education by the COVID-19 pandemic beggars description, and so we are reduced to metaphor: Schools have been hit by an earthquake, a hurricane, a war. There…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We are currently witnessing a new wave of systems enthusiasm among philanthropic and development organizations eager to be identified as system leaders, with a host of implementing organizations and development…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When his father died last year of an overdose.Rodney Watson thought he would miss the funeral and his last chance to say goodbye—not because of the pandemic, but because he…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. More than five decades after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., many carry on his legacy through the struggle for racially integrated schools. Yet as King put it in…