This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Mothers have suffered tremendously during the pandemic. They have lost jobs at a higher rate than fathers and have borne the brunt of caregiving and virtual learning activities in many families. Pregnant women and new mothers…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. From the pressure of living in poverty to street violence and the foreclosure crisis that tore through many of Chicago’s communities, many students in Chicago Public Schools were handling a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the challenge created by high-level, aggregated data when addressing chronic food security and other lasting challenges affecting Africa—namely the masking of community-level differences, which inhibits…
Nearly 30 percent of the adult population in the country has had at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine. By now, you probably know quite a few people who’ve…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. During this pandemic, families have been dealing with numerous sources of stress–including unemployment, strains on financial resources, and higher levels of anxiety and depression from living in a time of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A recent World Health Organization survey illustrates the everyday experience of migrants during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study, which surveyed over 30,000 refugees and migrants living in 170 countries, was carried out…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We can understand the effectiveness of the campaign in terms of the six-step framework of Aspirational Communication that I offer here. Step 1: Focus on People Who Are Ambivalent When…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. About halfway through No Such Thing as a Free Gift, her book about the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Linsey McGoey suggests that it’s necessary to review Bill Gates’s tactics at Microsoft…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide both a stimulus and a framework for corporate sustainability efforts: This is reflected in the 2018 BSR/Globescan State of Sustainable Business Survey, where more than 70 percent…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Today, an unprecedented and long-term housing crisis looms, with an estimated 40 million Americans at risk of eviction, many of whom lost their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since 2017,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Water experts have been sounding the alarm for some time about the potential impacts of climate change and a need to invest in their infrastructure. Those warnings have been coupled…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For 30 years, residents of Centerville, Illinois, have been forced to live with pools of their own feces. Nearly every time it rains in the town, where 96 percent of…