This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. COVID-19 continues to pose novel challenges to health systems around the world. With the rapid depletion of stockpiles of personal protective equipment (PPE) and severe shortages of physical space in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This summer has seen more fires, more heat, more storms — all of it making life increasingly untenable in larger areas of the nation. Already, droughts regularly threaten food crops…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Many researchers have looked at nitrogen pollution hotspots around the country. But a new first-of-its-kind, multi-year study from the University of Vermont looks at areas where nitrogen pollution reduction is…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If you haven’t seen the projections, you’ve probably still absorbed the gist of them: At some point in the not-too-distant future an astronomical number of people will likely be displaced…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If the past two years have taught us anything, it’s that black swan shocks are real and disruption is something most businesses and organizations continue to underestimate in their planning…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Black Lives Matter The police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and many others in 2020 mobilized more than 20 million Americans demanding an end to rampant, state-sanctioned violence against…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Whether an organization is a for-profit or a nonprofit, both in-person and online social channels are needed to connect people to the organization’s mission. Knowing how to effectively leverage these…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Mo Ibrahim has just given US$ 5m to the recently retired president of the West African nation of Niger, one of the world’s most impoverished countries. Not everyone thinks this…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Since fall 2020, researchers at the Center on Reinventing Public Education have studied hundreds of self-organized learning pods that launched during the pandemic. As our latest report shows, most families sought safe…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the past few years, wildfires have broken out around the world at a scale rarely experienced by modern humans. In 2020, fires in the western U.S. charred more than 10…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the past few years, there have been a lot of urgent conversations about the need to center work on communities, commit to equity, and rethink how systems like philanthropy…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Mounting evidence suggests the western United States is now in its worst megadrought in at least 1,200 years. Groundwater supplies are being overpumped in many places, and the dryness, wildfires…