This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s easy to get depressed about the state of the world this year. The coronavirus pandemic, racial injustice, wildfires and the breakdown of democratic norms have many of us feeling…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. While the majority of unemployed Veterans are 45 years and older, the number of programs to support their transition into the workforce is minimal. Learn more about the employment…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In developing your plan for giving and/or impact investing, the inevitable questions come up of if and where to focus geographically. Assuming you don’t have endless cash to deploy for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Before March, the chief technology officers who keep modern classrooms connected would have agreed that new tech programs can’t be rolled out overnight. Yet that’s exactly what they have been…
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:…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Well-aligned digital infrastructure should be the aspiration of all nonprofits, everywhere. Nonprofits today are dependent on digital software and hardware. Just as they manage their financial, physical, and human resources,…