This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Across the nonprofit ecosystem, the imperative to acknowledge and right the deep wrongs of our own institutional histories is prompting more dialogue and action. Reparations for the descendants of enslaved…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. On February 1st, Myanmar’s military launched a coup and seized control of the government, less than a decade after the nation began its transition to democracy. Myanmar’s elected leader Aung…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. What has the pandemic shown us about ageism in health care, what needs to change and what can philanthropy do to push progress? Ageism is one of many long-standing problems in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Even before the outbreak of COVID-19 and resulting mass closures, high-quality child care was in short supply. Between 2018 and 2019, half of states actually saw a decline in the number of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. All living beings grow, shift and evolve, and we change by doing. For those of us bent on social change, we are always experimenting, learning as we go, changing ourselves…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Preventing and ending homelessness must include both specialized homelessness services and nontargeted resources — housing, employment, education, and health care — that can help people achieve housing stability and go on to pursue…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. 2018 is the year I officially gave up on traditional philanthropy. I have been disillusioned for some time with how intermediating institutions seem to lose sight of their purpose as…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. On January 6, we witnessed an unprecedented attack on American democracy — the culmination of a sustained campaign to undermine the integrity of the November 2020 election and, ultimately, overturn…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In recent weeks, there have been over 20 attacks on Asian businesses and people, mostly elders, with little to no coverage from the mainstream news outlets. Videos documenting such attacks…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. After a decade studying a flu virus that killed approximately 15,000 Michigan residents, Chandra, a professor in the James Madison College at Michigan State University, saw his research come to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For the past several months, farmers from across northern India have camped outside the Indian capital of New Delhi, protesting three recently passed laws that they see as opening India’s agricultural sector…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. On the campaign trail, President Biden proposed increasing federal funding for K–12 education, in part by tripling Title I spending, and it is likely the new administration will want to…