This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Living in Alaska these past twenty-six years, I discovered it’s a good laboratory for social innovation. While Alaska covers a large area — 20 percent the size of the rest…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Advocates have been pushing the state to consider allowing students to continue their education until the end of this school year. Under the current rules, there’s no way for them…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. 2020 brought immense uncertainties to schools, so it is critical to center the design of any school model on student experiences. That’s why Lindsay Unified School District (LUSD), a small, rural district…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Researchers screened 3,904 employees and clinicians at a New Jersey hospital between late April and late June for the SARS-CoV-2 virus and for lgG-antibodies to the virus, whose presence suggests…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. My journey to Headwaters has been a long and windy path. I went to school to become a lawyer, and, instead, I became a philanthropist. In my work, I ask…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “It should be fun to work with artificial intelligence tools,” says Nancye Blair Black, Project Lead for AI Explorations and Their Practical Use in School Environments. It’s a simple credo but…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As COVID-19 threatened jails and prisons in March, the Connecticut Department of Corrections decided to waive the $3 fee it charged prisoners for a medical visit. “We didn’t want the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Nonprofit leaders are exhausted. Many were planning to leave even before 2020 happened. There were the white boomers trying to retire, the young leaders of color trying to navigate cultures not…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Black Americans pursue more intensive treatments than white Americans in the last six months of life, researchers report. White people are also more likely to use hospice care, according to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Companies with strong reputations as corporate citizens are respected for providing value to society in a comprehensive way – through their products and services, their operational excellence, and their support…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Here are some of the lessons we have taken with us from the past decade: Believe in people and communities. We had to push Arkansas toward a vision of justice, and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is growing in popularity, from the largest multinational companies like Procter & Gamble or Unilever to small firms like Give Realty or Hotels for Hope. In…