This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Diversion is the intervention that has the greatest impact on the community level for those experiencing homelessness. It helps people avoid entering shelter and/or the homeless response system by resolving…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Democracy Creates the Circumstances of its Own Demise When Simon Sachs, my great, great grandfather, left Thüringen, Germany in the early 1850s and journeyed across the Baltic Sea to start…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the most prosperous places in the United States, home to technological giants, entrepreneurial universities, and cities where more billionaires per capita reside…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Ted Turner has a line. (He has a lot of them.) He is one to say with a twinkle in his eye: If only I were more humble, I would…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “We need many more women with power, authority and influence — presidents, prime ministers, CEOs — they will be the key driver of success in bringing Africa from fragility and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. While floating hundreds of miles above the earth’s surface, India’s first astronaut Rakesh Sharma was asked what India looked like from space. In response, he quoted Muhammad Iqbal’s poem The Anthem…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When Hurricane Maria slammed into Dominica in 2017, 160 mph winds flattened just about everything — wiping out houses, schools, health clinics, and farms — and left the island nation…
Heat waves, droughts and extreme weather are endangering people and ecosystems somewhere in the world almost every day. These extremes are exacerbated by climate change, driven primarily by increasing emissions…
In this report we analyze the approaches governments and donors are taking to cross-integrate nutrition and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) within their nutrition and WASH national policies and plans.…
For those who work in philanthropy, the chaos that began in early 2020 have propelled more much-needed critical introspection than the field has ever faced. The inequities laid bare by…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If we go by the UN’s Definition, food security means that all people, at all times, have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets…
Polio is a disease that is easy to vaccinate against but difficult to treat. It has affected the livelihoods of more than 4,000 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in…