This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. At a time of deep social anxiety as we grapple with a pandemic, police brutality and systemic racial inequalities brought into even starker relief because of COVID-19, we need to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The past year has presented a flurry of devastating challenges for California. Wildfires and the pandemic delivered a one-two punch to the state, with a record-setting 4 million acres burned in 2020 and more…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If reparations for the descendants of enslaved people had occurred before the COVID-19 pandemic, virus transmissions could have been significantly lower not only for Black Americans, but also across racial…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Atlanta Women’s Foundation examines all of our work through a gender lens because social problems affect women and girls in unique ways—biologically, psychologically, and economically—so programs designed to deal…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The American poet Ambrose Bierce wrote in 1906 that a philanthropist is “a rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. After years of framework development, metric definition, and data collection, many investors are increasingly able to anticipate, measure, and manage the social and environmental results of their investments. Many of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Independent Sector, with the Do Good Institute, announces that the latest value of a volunteer hour is $27.20 – up 7% from the previous year. Estimated from data collected in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Prior to the current coronavirus recession, most U.S. economic metrics pointed to a slow but steady nationwide recovery amid an 11-year post-Great Recession run of economic growth. But prosperity was…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As the COVID-19 epidemic continues to ravage the American public, an unsurprising story emerges: Poor communities are hot spots for COVID transmission. The death rate from COVID-19 appears to be…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The great regret that will always haunt me isn’t something I did; it was something I didn’t do. In the early 1990s, I was working full-time on the transition to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Back in April of 2019, a World Economic Forum article started with the sentence, “This is a difficult time for philanthropy.” It went on to detail all the many ways…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The central strategy of most market-based sanitation (MBS) programs is to encourage entrepreneurial participation in sanitation value chains. However, fostering commercially viable and sustainable enterprises that attract and sustain entrepreneurial…