Over the past year and a half, the United States has reckoned with the pandemic, a breakdown of race relations, rising wealth inequality, the looming threat of climate change and…
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New Point-in-Time count data from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development show homelessness has increased 12.1 percent from 2022 to 2023.
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A failure to understand race means the development and testing of wearable health monitors can exacerbate existing health inequities.
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READ THE TRANSCRIPT In this episode, Rusty discusses how fear freezes talent-investing, and how fear is a factor for both leaders in both nonprofits and foundations. For example, many nonprofits fear losing funding if they expose the challenges they face in supporting their staff.
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A report from the Center for Disaster Philanthropy finds that disaster funding by the top 1,000 U.S. foundations plunged from $4.3 billion in 2020—in …
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While disparities have long existed in education, the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic have made them even more apparent. K–12 education took a hard hit during the pandemic. The 2022 National Assessment of Education Progress scores reflect declines in both reading and math, with historically…
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The Schott Foundation for Public Education’s team left our workshop at the Association of Black Foundation Executives’ 2022 conference this spring feeling hopeful. The room was filled with people leaning…
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From the MacArthur Foundation: Kristen Mack, Vice President, Communications, Fellows, and Partnerships, shares thinking on umbrella terms, which are intended to be inclusive but often come up short when discussing complex and evolving identities.
https://www.macfound.org/press/perspectives/bipoc-lgbtq-power-limitations-umbrella-terms ****
Read the full article at: www.giarts.org
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Christine Thurman is a mother of three. She’s engaged and is the breadwinner in her Chicago household. She also works as a waitress, living primarily off of tips because she’s…
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Racial threats and slights take a toll on health, but the continual invalidation and questioning of whether those so-called microaggressions exist has an even more insidious effect, research shows.
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How developing strong relationships between nonprofit leaders can fuel anti-racist momentum.
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To move beyond single-point solutionism, impact investing must use financial capital as both resource and connective tissue.