This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Research shows that implicit bias and barriers even come from people and groups with the best intentions. In the philanthropic sector, people with disabilities are grossly underrepresented within funding institutions. And given…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Part six in a multi-part series highlighting successes of Clean Energy Districts (CED) and policies to make CEDs “universal local” institutions. Read part one, part two, part three, part four, and part five.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Power operates in every domain of human life: in families and communities; in social, civic, and economic organizations; and in political states and regimes. Reclaiming democracy means contending with power.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Climate change has led to hotter seas across the world: in 2018 European water temperatures reached record levels, and a marine heatwave in the north-east Pacific devastated marine life. Less predictably, global heating…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. McDowell County, located in North Carolina’s southern Appalachian Mountains, is overwhelmingly white. African-Americans are approximately 4 percent of the population, and less than 3 percent of residents are Latinx. McDowell’s…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. While some nations have made significant progress in reducing harmful practices like child marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM), and women are more represented in government than ever, several other…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Many lessons were learned during the past year of remote learning, but one remains particularly relevant as classrooms around the country reopen: Schools and families can’t effectively support students without…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When the Covid-19 pandemic disruptions to K-12 schooling took an extraordinary toll on students and their parents, K-12 philanthropy responded. A range of efforts—from shifting project-specific grants to general operating funds to grants…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Shavel’le Olivier relies on Boston’s public transit to do her shopping, run errands, and visit family. She lives in Mattapan, a neighborhood in the southwest corner of the city where…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The research, published in Nature Energy, shows that a low energy demand recovery could reduce a hypothetical tax on all carbon emissions by 19%. The pandemic-related drop in greenhouse gas…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Almost eight years after Typhoon Haiyan barreled into Busuanga Island in the western Philippines, the lesson it left is still etched in the mind of village leader Annabel Dela Cruz.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Journey Foods, an Austin-based food technology company, is launching a new collaboration with colleges and universities to support students in food technology research. The initiative, JourneyLabs, aims to diversify people working…