This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When families huddle in the cold outside nursing home windows, you can see a COVID-19 tragedy unfolding. But a less visible pandemic tragedy is just now coming into view: college…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), such as cancers and diabetes, are now the leading cause of death in the world, according to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2019 Global Health Estimates report published Wednesday.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Hopes for fewer large wildfires in 2018, after last year’s disastrous fire season, are rapidly disappearing across the West. Six deaths have been reported in Northern California’s Carr Fire, including…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Jeff Bezos announced that Amazon will donate $690,000 ($1 million Australian) in assistance to wildfire recovery after Australia’s devastating bushfires. Twenty-eight people and more than one billion animals have died in the fires, which have burned…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Lost among the oft-reported story of how Tencent and Alibaba dominate more than 90 percent of China’s online fundraising by value is news that China’s two largest banks, Bank of China and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the bleak winter days after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012, a town in shock after losing 20 children and six adults faced down intrusive reporters, political…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. With the support of the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund, the UN Refugee Agency has provided more than 3,140 pregnant women and girls in Kenya’s Kakuma camp and Kalobeyei settlement with uninterrupted…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As the months roll by, the pandemic continues to hit Indigenous nations hard. But this phenomenon is not new. Epidemics have been part of colonialism since settlers arrived. Health inequities…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the wake of the crises of 2020, the philanthropic community has been reaching deeper to become more strategic and more effective. To find out what skills and practices some…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Today’s U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Jobs Report demonstrates a stalled jobs recovery following the deep and rapid economic decline brought about by the coronavirus pandemic. The unemployment rate has…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Anchorage School District must stop pressuring families and students to return to school during a pandemic. I am currently a senior and have always dreamt of the day I…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The potential for philanthropy to help shape the future of the American system of education has never been greater. Change is happening. But there is no guarantee that this change…