This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Dear mayors and city council members, I appreciate that when you are making decisions for the community, you have the best interests of your constituents at heart. But as a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Coming together for friendship, worship, play, learning, commerce, protest, governing, mourning, or celebration is fundamental. The desire to be with others is innate; the right to do so is declared…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The recent global awakening to racial injustice within the United States may represent an unprecedented opportunity for transformative social change—especially for Black communities, who have languished under persistent forces of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the United States, the COVID-19 pandemic struck a uniquely precarious workforce. The shock has exposed and widened rifts in our two-tiered labor market—between workers with stable jobs and the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Community Investment Network (CIN)’s annual conference truly was a Homecoming! It felt so good to virtually gather with hundreds of leaders in philanthropy including writer and philanthropist Melanie Brown, Rev. Eugene Cho of One…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. With COVID-19 cases on the rise, families and schools across America face an extended period of educational disruption. Recent research illustrates the toll that this upheaval has had on our…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. While education beyond high school is the surest ticket to the middle class, the postsecondary landscape is complicated and hard to navigate. For those whose families and schools can’t provide…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Men in jobs with hard physical work have a higher risk of developing dementia compared to men doing sedentary work, new research reveals. Based on the findings, researchers urge health…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. New Haven-based Heron Foundation went through its own reckoning moment in 2019. “We realized we couldn’t achieve our core mission of helping communities help themselves if we weren’t deeply listening…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Shelly Miller, University of Colorado Boulder The vast majority of SARS-CoV-2 transmission occurs indoors, mostly from the inhalation of airborne particles that contain the coronavirus. But in spite of the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. There is an opportunity to save lives through recovering up to 28,000 more organs every year1 while saving up to $40 billion in healthcare costs from foregone dialysis over 10 years2—all…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. With a sharp increase in U.S. COVID-19 cases this fall and hospitals nearing capacity in parts of the Midwest and West, health care workers nationwide are scrambling to save lives…