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My first executive director position was with MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana in San Jose, CA. I distinctly remember the day I started, it was May 7th, 2003…

David Leonhardt of the New York Times covered two major stories in education research during the first week of May. Together, they have strong implications for how those in philanthropy…

A baby formula shortage has added to the woes of American parents already confronted with the pressures of raising an infant during a pandemic in a country ranked low for…

The complex and interdependent nature of the challenges we face in the world will not be solved by any one individual, organization, or government alone. There is not a single…

Twenty-five years ago, when I was a young anthropologist working in northern Siberia, the Indigenous hunters, fishers and trappers I lived with would often stop and solemnly offer something to…

The COVID-19 pandemic has helped to draw greater attention to mental health issues that can be neglected in public policy debates. Even as the worst of the pandemic recedes, this…

Government policies during the COVID-19 pandemic, including cash transfers and tax credits, reduced poverty in New York City, even while poverty citywide—particularly among minorities—persisted well above national averages, a report…

StriveTogether partners with communities to ensure every child has every chance to succeed – because race, ethnicity, poverty, and circumstance should not determine opportunity or outcome. Their network represents nearly 70…

Heatwaves on both land and ocean can have deadly impacts. However, efforts to predict imminent ocean heatwaves still lag behind research predicting land-based extremes. The new study, published in Nature, provides the foundation for an…

Foundation behavior is notoriously hard to change, and foundations are better at getting nonprofits to change than at changing themselves. The survey results are encouraging. A significant majority of respondents…

When the pandemic hit, 10-year-old Luis, who has autism, quickly started to regress. Luis’s mother said the boy stopped socialializing after his fourth grade class at his Los Angeles Unified…

During the pandemic, a staggering 4.2 million women across the country had to leave the workforce—a full million more women than men. For one thing, layoffs in hard-hit sectors like the leisure and hospitality…