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Homeschooling is the fastest-growing education setting in the United States. More than 3 million students were educated at home in the 2021-22 school year, up from 2.5 million in the…

The connection between foster care and homelessness is well known among those working in the field. For youth transitioning from care who had a prior episode of homelessness, a future…

The passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act in 2015 eliminated the federal requirement that teachers be highly qualified to teach. This regulatory freedom, combined with a shortage of trained…

If you live in one of the most economically deprived neighborhoods in your city, you might think the government is directing a smaller share of public funds to your community.…

Wildfires are becoming more intense and more frequent, ravaging communities and ecosystems in their path. Recent years have seen record-breaking wildfire seasons across the world from Australia to the Arctic…

Funders are shifting from being at the center of social change efforts to working in close partnership with the broader ecosystem of stakeholders necessary to sustain lasting change.

Every ten seconds, one child is saved by a vaccine against a fatal disease.

Paid caregivers foster independence and improve quality of life for people with all kinds of disabilities, many of whom need help getting dressed, preparing meals, showering and dealing with other…

A national panel officially lowered the recommended age when individuals should receive routine screening mammograms from 50 to 40.

Scenes from the Houston area looked like the aftermath of a hurricane in early May after a series of powerful storms flooded highways and neighborhoods and sent rivers over their…

In her chapter from What’s Possible: Investing NOW for Prosperous, Sustainable Neighborhoods, LISC’s Madeline del Carmen Fraser Cook, who also co-edited the book, explores the imperative of authentic community engagement in the work of supporting historically underinvested places to become more…

Practices such as redlining left marginalized groups in more disaster-prone areas with poorer quality infrastructure − and more likely to experience prolonged power outages.