This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. After the initial excitement following the authorization of the first COVID-19 vaccines, a harsh reality set in. People who want a vaccine can’t get it, some counties have more than…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The events of January 6 were infuriating. The world doesn’t especially need another organizational statement decrying the violence, condemning the liars and conspiracy theorists, or lamenting the latest vivid display…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The year 2020 broke disaster records across the country in destructive and expensive ways. The Atlantic had so many hurricanes, meteorologists ran out of tropical storm names for only the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Impact bonds, a subset of outcomes-based contracts, involve multiple partners and purport to create more flexibility and incentives for service providers in adapting to changed circumstances. Historically, these contracts have…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The cause of early childhood care and education has found some energetic champions in the past few years. Federal programs subsidizing child care for low-income families and early nurse visits…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Not a single country has achieved economic equality between women and men. As of 2019, women only had equal rights in six countries. Everywhere else, legal discrimination, harmful beliefs, lack of access to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Nonprofit leaders are exhausted. Indeed, many were planning to leave their jobs even before 2020 happened. They include white boomers looking to retire, young leaders of color trying to navigate cultures…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This time last year, no one could have foreseen the dramatic way in which 2020’s challenges would alter people’s lives around the world. The COVID-19 pandemic introduced new complications to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Resourcing Racial Justice was created in the UK as an emergency response to the pandemic. As a group of people of colour that were activists, innovators, and artists we knew…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Roughly one-quarter of adults believe they are financially worse off now than at the beginning of the pandemic. However, not all generations have experienced the COVID-19 economic recession equally. In March and April,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. During his presidential campaign, president-elect Joe Biden prioritized transportation investment, particularly in the form of projects to mitigate US carbon emissions and increase access to opportunity for people of color. In his transition…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Philanthropy has a role to play in rehabilitating our democracy, though it sits in an uneasy relationship with democracy. Depending on the form it takes, philanthropy can be a threat to…