This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If you know the animals in your neighborhood but not the plants, you’re not alone. Scientists have documented nearly 400,000 plant species and expect to identify many more. But unlike…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Longstanding racial and ethnic disparities in the United States have hurt not only the people who experience the disparities but have hurt all Americans by depressing U.S. economic output by…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, it would cost $20 billion to end homelessness in the United States. That is a big number, yes, but let’s put…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over two days in the summer of 1910, wildfires roared across the bone-dry forests of the inland Northwestern U.S., the Rockies, and parts of British Columbia. Whole towns burned. The…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. On Sept 22, 2021, Johnson & Johnson released data that answers two questions many people have likely been wondering about its vaccine: How good is it against the delta variant,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. With more than 18 months of the pandemic in the rearview mirror, researchers have been steadily gathering new and important insights into the effects of COVID-19 on the body and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s understandable to come out of 20 years of funding cycles with a new perspective on grantmaking. For one Portland-based organization, these shifts in perspective have driven consistent and drastic…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A recent dramatic dip in male college enrollment and graduation flushed out multiple academic experts to explain why. The academics sound smart, and they all offer valid pieces of the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Leadership within the social sector today is as challenging as ever. As a generation of long-tenured executives steadily matriculate out of institutional leadership roles, staff, boards and representatives from all…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Brevity and Wit, author Minal Bopaiah’s strategy and design firm, could also be a good description of the way in which Bopaiah addresses the complicated concepts in her book, Equity: How…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Students attending large lectures online ask significantly more questions than do students who attend in person, research finds. During COVID-19, many instructors have learned to teach via Zoom and Teams. In the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Feed the Fridge, a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit organization, is helping to alleviate food insecurity while keeping restaurants in business. The organization operates by placing refrigerators around the D.C. metro area and…