This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We are at a moment where philanthropy needs to rethink its compact with society, its role in solving public problems, and its pathways to funding large-scale change. However, as trustees deliberate how to meet…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When families huddle in the cold outside nursing home windows, you can see a COVID-19 tragedy unfolding. But a less visible pandemic tragedy is just now coming into view: college…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Hopes for fewer large wildfires in 2018, after last year’s disastrous fire season, are rapidly disappearing across the West. Six deaths have been reported in Northern California’s Carr Fire, including…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the bleak winter days after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012, a town in shock after losing 20 children and six adults faced down intrusive reporters, political…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As the months roll by, the pandemic continues to hit Indigenous nations hard. But this phenomenon is not new. Epidemics have been part of colonialism since settlers arrived. Health inequities…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Today’s U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Jobs Report demonstrates a stalled jobs recovery following the deep and rapid economic decline brought about by the coronavirus pandemic. The unemployment rate has…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Anchorage School District must stop pressuring families and students to return to school during a pandemic. I am currently a senior and have always dreamt of the day I…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The potential for philanthropy to help shape the future of the American system of education has never been greater. Change is happening. But there is no guarantee that this change…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Even in the best of times, no company can predict with perfect accuracy how it will perform in the future. However, the Covid-19 pandemic has turned even the most tentative…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Today, the NFIP is effectively bankrupt. It owes the U.S. Treasury nearly $25 billion – money it borrowed from federal taxpayers to cover its obligations in Sandy, Katrina (2005), and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Oregon became the first state in the United States to decriminalize the possession of all drugs on Nov. 3, 2020. Measure 110, a ballot initiative funded by the Drug Policy…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In our most recent report, On the Frontlines, which examines how nonprofit leaders of color are faring in the wake of the pandemic, the usual concerns about not being treated fairly…