This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This is the second episode of Talent Matters Remix, our three-episode series in partnership with ProInspire, co-hosted by Monisha Kapila and Rusty Stahl. In this episode, Monisha and Rusty talk…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As the national conversation about racial disparities continues, it’s important to ensure that we are including solutions to address the racial wealth gap. In 2016, the median white family had ten…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. By the end of 2016, Nicholas Bailey had no teeth. A Michigan prison dentist had removed all of them because they were decaying. “I’m in pain,” he wrote in a series…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As we seek to move our Latinx- and Black-owned businesses past survival mode and seek to build a more equitable economy in the face of an unprecedented pandemic and ongoing…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Staying nimble as a nonprofit will be essential the deeper we move into the future of work post-Covid. This fact is especially true when organizations start developing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For over forty years, the Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) has worked to produce equal outcomes for children, families and communities. The organization’s commitment to equity, especially…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. What if you made it much easier for workers of color to become business owners, and thus build wealth much faster? What if you offered creative, revenue-based loans to underserved…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has announced plans to allocate $650 billion worth of reserve funds to support a global economic recovery from COVID-19. Distributed in the form of reserve assets called Special…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over the last 20 years, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, has failed to enforce a law that would have made U.S. cities and towns more resilient to the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s the summer of cascading disasters in the United States: Downpours have made rivers of major metropoles’ transit lines, a coastal condo collapsed, flames have engulfed vast swaths of land,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 pandemic is threatening to exacerbate the nation’s geographic divergence in community well-being and economic prosperity that has been widening since the Great Recession. Over one-quarter of U.S. counties…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Though it has been commonly accepted for decades, the notion that the sole purpose of business is to maximize shareholder profit ignores the needs of our broader communities and the…