This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Large shares of grants that donor-advised funds distributed from 2014 to 2018 supported educational and religious…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Forty years into the HIV/AIDS epidemic, Black women continue to bear the highest burden of HIV among women. Although Black women represent only 13% of the female population, they accounted…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Residential energy use represents roughly one-fifth of annual greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. A team of researchers used data from 60 million individual United States households to look…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In October 2018, the Mayor of San Francisco, in collaboration with Tipping Point Community, launched the Rising Up campaign to halve homelessness among people ages 18 to 24. To reach…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In this first interview of the “17 Rooms” podcast, Kristen Leanderson Abrams and Carsten Stendevad discuss the role institutional investors can play in the fight against forced labor and modern…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The short animated cartoon starts out with an animal-rights activist trying to pass out pamphlets in front of a signboard with a pig on it. Despite his enthusiasm, no one…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As public trust in the media dips, hundreds of thousands of donors are banding together to strengthen nonprofit newsrooms — organizations that are informing their communities, holding power to account,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Visitors didn’t trek to this exhibit to view famous works of art or historic artifacts. They were at Boston University to visit “The Wonder of Learning,” a traveling exhibit highlighting…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The phrase “school-to-prison pipeline” has long been used to describe how schools respond to disciplinary problems with excessively stringent policies that create prison-like environments and funnel children who don’t fall…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We discussed how philanthropy can start to advance racial equity in the first two parts of this blog series: Developing a Shared Language and Introducing an Anti-Racist Intersectional Frame. Now,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Nigeria’s Government Enterprise & Empowerment Programme (GEEP) offers interest and collateral-free credit to millions of micro SMEs operating at the bottom of the Nigerian economic pyramid. While it was obvious…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Systemic inequities, a global pandemic, and violence from both state and private actors have created the perfect storm. Black, Asian, Indigenous, migrant, Roma and racialised communities around the world have…