This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The high costs of COVID-19 are evident in lost jobs, dramatic falls in GDP growth, compromised schooling, shuttered restaurants, and much more. Some of these losses will be recovered over…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. To understand how rural America has been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, it is important to grasp that rural America is not a monolith. Communities are diverse both in terms…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over the course of the pandemic, it’s been apparent to anyone who works with or parents small children how deeply the nation’s difficulties have been felt by its youngest citizens.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report highlighted that we need to end carbon emissions by 2050 to keep global average temperature rise below 1.5°C. Even before the United Nations…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Nonprofit organizations in the United States play a vital role delivering services, strengthening communities, and facilitating civic engagement. In our nationally representative survey of nonprofit organizations fielded January through April…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Gun violence increased by more than 30% in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study. The researchers say that stress, domestic violence, lack of social…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Centro Studi Divulga, in collaboration with the World Farmers Market Coalition (WFMC), recently published a report articulating pathways for global farmers markets to cultivate lasting alternatives to the industrialized food system. The report aims…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “We have a partnership with a regional food bank,” a principal once told me on a school visit. “Each Friday, every eligible student gets a red backpack full of food…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Smart trash cans promise a range of benefits to the cities and facilities that use them—from better asset tracking and management to cleaner public spaces and a reduction in illegal…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. New research links conditions at the beginning of the start of the growing season to grain prices in five African countries. The first rains that signal the beginning of the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When schools closed down last spring, some parents and educators responded by forming “pandemic pods,” or small groups of students who came together outside of school to learn during the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As a founding partner of the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A), the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB), and Malaria is at the forefront of the global COVID-19 response.…