This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 1989, the social psychologist Melanie Joy became a vegetarian almost by accident. She ate a hamburger contaminated with campylobacter and became so ill that she couldn’t stomach the idea…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. At Community Solutions, we think a lot about the eradication of smallpox. The vaccine for the disease was introduced in 1796. But smallpox was not eradicated until 1980—more than 180…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When COVID-19 began devastating our region of the South, we asked our partners how the pandemic was affecting their work and how we could be most helpful. They described overwhelming…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As the nation celebrates our 17 million living veterans, it is also important to know that the number of these heroes who are ending their own lives prematurely is rising.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Deviating from its more typical “best of (neighborhoods, doctors, crab shacks…)” lifestyle articles, Baltimore Magazine featured in its July issue a far less sunny piece on the ravaging impacts of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Research links the Affordable Care Act’s elimination of out-of-pocket costs for contraception with fewer births, especially among low-income families. Nearly half of pregnancies in the US are unplanned, and there’s…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Bill, how do you explain what seems like our current obsession with social enterprise and “doing well while doing good”? Every 7–10 years people become particularly enamored with this idea:…
On Sept. 1, The Women’s Philanthropy Institute released COVID-19, Generosity, and Gender, a report that looks at how giving changed during the early months of the pandemic. The findings illustrate…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Keep your board meetings healthy and productive. Since nonprofit board meetings depend on interaction among people with different values, perspectives, and communication styles, conflict is likely to occur. The impact of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Ford Mobility’s portfolio of smart transit subsidiaries — TransLoc, Ride Systems and DoubleMap — launched an initiative to provide transit agencies with free demand response software, consulting and planning services…
Nonprofit CWI Labs, whose mission is to help underserved communities overcome workforce entry barriers, has partnered with WorkingNation to address the issue in a series of interviews for our An…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia affect millions of older adults in the US—but not equally. Past research has identified risk factors including genes, education, racism, and air pollution, and a…