This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When the pandemic exposed major issues with our lengthy food supply chain — in the form of shipment delays and inadequate demand forecasting — local vertical farms and indoor growing…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. All Brittany Mann thinks about when she’s at work is her infant daughter, Aahliyah. While Mann works 12-hour shifts as a security guard at a women’s homeless shelter in lower…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Larry Kramer has eloquently made the case that there is no one-size-fits-all answer to the question of how foundations should respond to moments of crisis. In our conversations with foundations across the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If all had gone according to plan, the Constitution pipeline would be carrying fracked gas 124 miles from the shale gas fields of Pennsylvania through streams, wetlands, and backyards across…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The past year brought many new, unexpected challenges for mobility companies within the smart city space. Prominent micromobility powerhouses like Bird and Lime, for instance, laid off significant swaths of their…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The deep wounds of systemic racism have plagued communities across this country for generations, and in 2020, the largest response in this nation’s history made it explicitly clear that we…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As we consider the evolution of our ratings, Charity Navigator sees collecting and learning from constituent feedback as a potentially critical marker of organizations’ capacity for impact. It implies organizations…
As COVID has accelerated the movement to “remote everything,” the digital exclusion of historically marginalized groups is facing crisis proportions. In response, the National Urban League, working with other civil…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. With the arrival of effective vaccines against COVID-19, the end of the pandemic may finally be in sight. Yet the crisis in public education, one deeply exacerbated by the virus,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. COVID-19 made 2020 a year like no other. Infections and hospitalizations continue to spike. The most effective, widely implemented tool for containing the disease—social distancing—continues to leave schools struggling with…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In a report on foundations’ equity efforts related to the 2020 crises released in December by the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP), the organization I lead, we found that of 218 foundations…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Many Americans appear to be experiencing cautious optimism about the role that vaccines could play in ending the pandemic. But recent public opinion research suggests that 29% to 37% of…