This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The breadth and depth of expertise sought by clients of a professional advisor these days can be staggering. Long gone are the days when it was sufficient to be an…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Most funders typically distribute funding to advance their goals and support the community through grants. However, other ways to fund organizations and groups can be considered, including impact investments, fiscal…
In May 2022, the Shared Value Initiative and FSG published the Centering Equity in Corporate Purpose guide with input from more than 80 experts from around the world. This guide was developed to help…
New York City has been debating the merits of charging drivers a fee for entering its central business district for decades. Known as “congestion pricing,” it’s a strategy that major…
Society is asking the private sector to play a larger role in advancing equity. For the second year in a row, respondents to the 2022 Edelman Trust Barometer ranked business as the…
Partnerships between higher education institutions and employers can be difficult to create, often because of misalignment between the cultures, structures and values of the two groups, according to a July report from…
Several major oil companies, including BP and Shell, periodically publish scenarios forecasting the future of the energy sector. In recent years, they have added visions for how climate change might…
Universities can turn one of our world’s most unconscionable injustices—unequal access to quality education—into one of the greatest hopes for our future. Universities must address the education divide not only…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Hewlett Foundation believes that the climate crisis is one of the most pressing issues of our lifetime and impacts everything we do — it’s why we have dedicated over…
Several recent announcements have demonstrated how little has been learned from the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the potential need for a national reckoning to assess shortfalls and develop recommendations for…
A new guide for clinicians, researchers, and mental health practitioners describes an evidence-based suicide prevention program. For every person who died by suicide in 2020, 25 more made an attempt,…
If you looked at the heat index during this summer’s sticky heat waves and thought, “It sure feels hotter!,” you may be right. An analysis by climate scientists at the…