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. “Grameen America, a nonprofit that provides loans to help low-income entrepreneurs, is doing all it can to aid Black women whose businesses have been hurt by the pandemic. Its goal…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. CEP’s latest research report, Persevering Through Crisis: The State of Nonprofits, provides further evidence of the devastating impact of 2020 on nonprofits — and how the crises of the past year hit…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Not too long ago, I chatted with a successful entrepreneur who had started four failed companies before his big break. Time after time, failure after failure, investors continued to believe…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The unanticipated transitions to virtual schooling due to COVID-19 exposed the lack of digital resources among Black families in the United States, including access to Wi-Fi and technological savviness, a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It is long past time to stop calling events like Hurricanes Sandy, Katrina, and now Harvey and Irma, natural disasters. There is no such thing. These may be natural events.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Many rural Black homeowners are denied federal disaster relief because of an informal system of property inheritance common in the South, reports Hannah Dreier of The Washington Post. Under the “heirs’ property” system,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Imagine the following career trajectory. An elementary school student goes on a field trip to a science center where she flies a plane and walks in space—virtually of course. Several…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In June of 2018, two Monterey County site inspectors visited a Salinas cannabis farm, where they encountered a small group of farmworkers who they suspected had been trafficked. The farmworkers,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Most reports about Black students’ experiences during the 2020-21 school year focused on challenges their families faced. There were urgent calls for schools to reopen, especially to better serve students…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. With a second disrupted school year in the books and what one hopes will be a more “normal” year ahead, America’s K-12 students stand at a crossroads. More kids have dropped…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A quiet transformation is underway in community foundations across the country. As independent, local public charities with a broad mission to improve their communities, community foundations hold a unique place…