This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Within a year of the first reported case of COVID-19, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine became the first fully-tested immunization to be approved for emergency use against the deadly virus. The lightning-speed development and approval…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Emily Griffith, founder and CEO of the health food company Lil Bucks, found herself in a tough spot in mid-2020. “I was in the valley of death,” she shared, referring…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. America’s skills gap has been widely discussed. The friction between postsecondary institutions failing to properly prepare job seekers and unrealistic employer expectations has led to seven million unfilled openings. Not…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It has almost become a donor mantra: invest in women and girls. But the vast majority of international aid is allocated without a feminist analysis, and that’s a problem. Feminist…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. 2020 was arguably one of the most difficult years in American history, challenging our resilience and surfacing enduring and systemic challenges to our collective health and well-being. As we continue…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Shyra Adams vividly remembers the days after the death of Tony Robinson, an unarmed Black teenager killed in 2015 by police in her hometown of Madison, Wisconsin. Angry and distraught…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Amid the dual crises of a global pandemic and a national reckoning with systemic racism, the U.S. philanthropic sector faces tremendous challenges and opportunities. CEP’s Foundations Respond to Crisis study found that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For many people, trying to get the COVID-19 vaccine has been a lesson in frustration. The vaccine supply is limited in many areas, creating confusion over who can get a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A majority of Boston residents will receive electricity via a new supplier starting Monday, the culmination of a years-in-the-making Community Choice Electricity program developed by the City of Boston Environment Department and partners.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Since early November, a military escalation in the Tigray region of Ethiopia has caused widespread violence and displaced hundreds of thousands of people. I arrived in Tigray, Mekele with the first first…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Despite being around for decades, many people still don’t know what CDFIs are or how to use them. I want to give an overview of CDFIs and provide some useful resources…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In late July 2019, a group of migrant farmworkers from south Texas was working in a cornfield in DeWitt County, Ill., when suddenly a crop duster flew overhead, spraying them…