Human Rights

As federal, state, and local governments marshal unprecedented resources to support the recovery from the disruption and harm inflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a significant and growing interest…

Record levels of obesity and physical inactivity among children mean they are set to bear the brunt of poorer health effects from rising global temperatures – that’s the stark warning…

Extreme heat is taking an increasing toll across the U.S. in summertime. People who are incarcerated are among society’s most vulnerable groups and have been especially affected. More than a…

Echoing Green, a global social venture fund based in New York City, has released a report reflecting on nearly a decade of investment in Black leaders and communities through the Black…

School shootings in the U.S. are national tragedies, and the toll they take in lives cut short and traumatized distinguishes the U.S. from other high-income countries. But there is another…

When New York Communities for Change helped lead a demonstration of 500 on Monday in Brooklyn to protest George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis, the grassroots group’s activism spoke to a…

Society is asking the private sector to play a larger role in advancing equity. For the second year in a row, respondents to the 2022 Edelman Trust Barometer ranked business as the…

People in prison get “three hots and a cot,” right? So, what do they need money for? A lot, it turns out. Prisons typically provide the bare minimum when it…

Since Covid-19 first interrupted education in March 2020, prompting shutdowns and a shift to virtual learning, the widening opportunity gap has been in the spotlight. The pandemic has further exposed…

Last spring, the Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity in Environmental Philanthropy (InDEEP initiative) released a report, based on confidential interviews with 14 BIPOC leaders, that offered recommendations on how philanthropy can more effectively…