This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Mild cases of COVID-19 do not appear to affect the health of pregnant women and their fetus, the study finds. Pregnant women with mild cases of coronavirus disease 2019 had…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This week, The Century Foundation announced The Bridges Collaborative, a grassroots effort to improve racial and socioeconomic integration and equity that involves 56 organizations, including 27 school districts of various sizes, geographies and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Mashable’s rounded up six activists who can teach you about feminism. Their social media channels are full of lessons you can absorb every day to learn about the do’s and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the nonprofit world, leadership often doesn’t mirror the makeup of the people these organizations seek to help. One recent study found that less than 20% of nonprofit director roles were filled by…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Days before the launch of Harambee’s newest partnership with the South African presidency to scale up in-person job placement centers across the country, COVID-19 forced the country into lockdown. Plans came…
Writers are shaping the fight for a better food system. “There is a generation of writers who write about food in a new way, in a way that didn’t exist…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The recent Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) report has clearly illustrated that while there has been some advancement, progress has stalled, and in some cases reversed, in vital areas like hunger and inequality…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Outside of homeownership, retirement savings are the most important way middle-class workers and their families build wealth in the United States. But this second pillar of wealth creation is woefully…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As other contributors to this series have pointed out, the US economy is deeply inequitable. The median household wealth for black and Latinx families is 12 times less than white households. The Surdna Foundation,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Democracy is the system of governance in which marginalized people are most likely to thrive, but as public trust in our electoral system weakens, our most vulnerable populations are at…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We seem to have reached a consensus that, in today’s economy, it’s nearly impossible to secure a quality job and get on the path to economic stability without postsecondary education.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Today’s students are the most at-risk for mental health problems in a generation. That was already true before the start of this turbulent year, thanks to the advent of the smartphone, the rise of social…