This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Brittany Taylor is a biomedical engineer and assistant professor who studies novel ways to improve bone and tendon healing after injuries. She is exploring drug delivery systems and temporary artificial…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The prolonged coronavirus pandemic continued to force seismic shifts in public policy and company behaviour. It brought about important fixes in the financial system and altered how businesses reacted to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A new, Yale-led study suggests the 21st century will see an expansion of hurricanes and typhoons into mid-latitude regions, which includes major cities such as New York, Boston, Beijing, and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Workforce systems around the country are facing labor shortages. Forty-two states have more available jobs than workers, and since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly a third of workers younger than 40…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For many years now, conventional solutions to income and wealth inequality—minimum wage, unions, progressive taxation, or guaranteed income—have failed to gain enough momentum to reverse the trend of greater and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. There are numerous reasons so many organizations across the globe are working to reduce their environmental impacts. These motives include, but aren’t limited to, meeting consumer demands, increasing efficiency, meeting regulatory…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A report released last month found that 54% of Native American respondents could not afford to eat balanced meals sometimes or often during Covid. Food banks are trying to lower…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Colleges are entering a third calendar year defined by the pandemic. They had some reason for optimism in 2021, with federal aid and the wide availability of the coronavirus vaccine…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s a common conundrum: A nonprofit rolls out what it believes will be an impactful program, only to run into cultural traditions and taboos that result in constituents resisting an…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Andrew J. Whelton, Purdue University and Caitlin R. Proctor, Purdue University In recent years wildfires have entered urban areas, causing breathtaking destruction. The 2018 Camp Fire in Paradise and Butte…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Gender-lens or gender-smart investing refers to investments that achieve greater social and financial return on investment by focusing on businesses that are owned or led by women, have good gender…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It is urgent that philanthropy invest in a dramatic expansion of civic bridging through an explicit lens of racial justice. This form of civic bridging entails multiracial, multiethnic relationship building,…