Human Rights

Nonprofits often pride themselves on being more socially conscious than for-profit corporations. There is at least one area, however, in which the nonprofit sector is not doing much better than…

The Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM) will now be free for kids age 12 and under through an anonymous gift of $3.54 million. The gift will enable the museum to establish a endowment…

Welcome. It is a pleasure to be here in Nairobi for the launch of the Global Humanitarian Overview for 2025 to address conflict, climate, and localization challenges in crisis response. I…

The United Nations on Wednesday sought $47 billion in aid for 2025 to help around 190 million people fleeing conflict and battling starvation, at a time when this year’s appeal…

There is no doubt that the world is currently experiencing multiple, complex, and protracted crises. These crises have led to increasingly intense and complicated demands on both philanthropy and the…

According to the Center for Effective Philanthropy’s recent report on grantee experiences with intermediary funders, 33 percent of intermediary grantees report receiving multiyear funding, compared to 58 percent of grantees of…

The authors of a 2018 study estimate that “[p]olice kill more than 300 [B]lack Americans — at least a quarter of them unarmed — each year in the USA.” Another paper estimates…

Trauma has profound implications for mental and physical health. Historical trauma can create health inequities centuries later. Indigenous generational trauma and health disparities are interconnected. The past few years have…

The COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately impacted historically marginalized and minoritized communities, shedding light on the urgent need for collective action towards embedding equity in crisis preparedness and response systems. Designed to…

There are more than 65 million Hispanic and Latino people living in the U.S. – the second-largest racial or ethnic minority population in the country. Yet when it comes to…

The U.S. has made little progress in advancing health care equity over the past two decades, and racial and ethnic inequities remain a fundamental flaw of the nation’s health care…

The Health Resources and Services Administration wants you to know there’s help available for anyone facing maternal mental health needs. Building on the success of its maternal mental health hotline…