This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and, most recently, Daunte Wright and Adam Toledo, are a reminder of how far America has to go to remediate systemic harms…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. More than a year since the COVID-19 pandemic halted life as we knew it, the world is now in a very different place. There are now eight vaccine candidates approved for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the U.S., only about 31.6 percent of eligible people were fully vaccinated as of Monday morning, and that number varies a lot from place to place — 23.8 percent of Alabamians…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The current imagination of safe drinking water is limited to surface water-based drinking water supply schemes and installing large-scale water treatment systems. But these solutions are infrastructure-focused; time- and cost-intensive.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. New funders who want to support the best work in reducing incarceration want to know: Where is the right place to plug in? What pieces can we bite off, and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Grounded in the belief that women’s economic inclusion is one of the most unexploited opportunities for improving lives, women have become a major focus of development policy over the past…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Some would-be first-year students stayed home out of fear they’d contract the virus or spread it to vulnerable family members. Others stuck around to support siblings with online learning. And…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced the importance of child care, particularly home-based child care (HBCC), a sector that has historically had a central but often overlooked role in supporting children…
In 2013, the One Nation Bay Area Project—a collaborative funded by Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, Marin Community Foundation and Asian American/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy—released a benchmark…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The philanthropy landscape is changing and shifting, for the better. Both in the way donors see philanthropy and approach giving are evolving as the world around us becomes more complex.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A report from the Equitable Evaluation Initiative (EEI) and Grantmakers for Effective Organizations highlights how foundations are working to integrate an equity lens into their evaluation practices. Based on discussions with staff at six…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The world is watching in horror as Covid-19 overwhelms hospitals in India. It is hard to look away as images of open-air crematoriums and makeshift funeral pyres in public parks…