This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. After a disaster strikes, relief can’t come soon enough for affected families. Immediate aid is generally provided by first responders, who are soon followed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Yosemite. Big Sur. The Grand Canyon. When one thinks “wilderness” in the United States, the mind often goes to the American frontier or federal lands in the West. But for…
On “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg,” Dani interviews Jeff Huckaby, President of Grimmway Farms and recently awarded Organic Farmer of the Year, and Laura Batcha, CEO and Executive Director of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The surge-upon-surge of COVID-19 cases in the United States has again focused attention on scarcity of lifesaving medical resources—hospital beds, ICU equipment, ventilators, oxygen, medications, and hospital staff. With nearly 124,000…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Every great organization is made up of people with two distinct ways of knowing. Following the famous Isaiah Berlin essay, “The Hedgehog and the Fox” (1953), there are foxes, who…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Across our work at the Milken Institute Center for Strategic Philanthropy (CSP), we often see first-hand how difficult it can be for different scientific disciplines to collaborate. While science has made so much progress in many areas, societal advancement could go…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Deadly floods across parts of Indonesia are a stark reminder of the climate change risks facing the Southeast Asian nation, environmentalists said on Monday, urging the government to be more…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Against the backdrop of the urgent realities of climate change, the pandemic, and the decline in oil prices, the necessity for oil- and gas-producing countries to immediately engage in the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As the U.S. grapples with the effort to distribute massive quantities of vaccine, the fundamental challenge is the more delicate task of persuading tens of millions of others it is…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. At the end of last year, I had the privilege to speak on a panel exploring the future of philanthropy. Towards the end, our moderator, the Arab Foundations Forum’s Naila Farouky,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Prisons have been ravaged by the virus. At least 343,000 people in state and federal facilities around the country have tested positive as of early January, according to reporting by The Marshall…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. COVID-19 has not been an equal opportunity pandemic. It has impacted Latinx, Black, and Indigenous communities; immigrants, older adults, and the uninsured more profoundly than the general population. At the…