This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Just 51% of Americans expressed a clear willingness to take the COVID-19 vaccine compared to 71% of residents in the United Kingdom, according to a study conducted during the first…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As a special education teacher in an inclusive classroom, Christina Ramsay knows that growing students’ social-emotional and mindfulness skills can mean the difference between meltdowns and managed emotions, self-doubt and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. About this time last year, Americans for the Arts staff put our heads together to create a “Trends in 2020” blog post. We didn’t anticipate an economy-grinding pandemic, which has…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The world’s business environment has changed and grown over the last year, and challenges have arisen that companies need to meet if they are to remain successful. Nonprofits have faced…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the late 1990’s, Los Angeles was facing a crisis as discontent neighborhoods across the city expressed their displeasure at being under-represented by city government. The most visible sign of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. With much of the world exiting a pandemic and entering a recession, the environment and conservation may not seem a pressing concern – but climate change and biodiversity loss remain…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Against the backdrop of the WE Charity scandal — and revelations of political nepotism and charitable shell corporations — Canadian philanthropic foundations have quietly distributed more than $100 million in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The 2016 presidential election revealed—as nothing before it—one of the most striking but least-anticipated aspects of the global digital revolution. In a single dramatic vote, the victory of Donald Trump…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This week, the historic unionization drive by Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Ala. will get an audience in the Capitol, as Amazon worker and union advocate Jennifer Bates testifies in front of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Many U.S. foundations, which disbursed roughly US$76 billion in 2019, say they are giving more money away in the United States because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the health, economic…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. From rising rates of global hunger to plowed produce and empty grocery store shelves, the headlines from 2020 painted a bleak picture of the world’s food systems, laying bare vulnerabilities…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Companies around the world, from Sweden’s Inkga Group (the holding company for the IKEA retail chain) to Clif Bar (with operations in the Bay Area and Twin Falls, Idaho) are…