This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s okay for women to create personal wealth, understand financial management, start and grow businesses, run successful social enterprises, enjoy financial security and go beyond simply taking care of their…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Corporate diversity pioneer Bernard Kinsey offers 20 ‘guiding principles’ to ensure a diverse and equitable corporate culture in the workplace. • How can philanthropy contribute toward prioritizing inclusiveness and…
Infrastructure for lending has long been exclusionary and insufficient. As a result, entrepreneurs of color often lack access to needed capital to grow and sustain their businesses. The COVID-19 crisis…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As people of color, we constantly find our communities with the same foot, just a different shoe, on our necks, and showing up for each other has become an act of survival. I choose this space and moment to honor the history and many…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Sierra Club, the oldest and largest environmental organization in the United States, is on a mission it is not known for—shining a light on environmental injustices. It announced its…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Many businesses around the globe have demonstrated adaptability and resilience as they faced the realities of the COVID-19 pandemic. Some companies, often led by their employees, have also had somewhat of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Children’s television programming not only shapes opinions and preferences, its characters can have positive or negative impacts on childhood aspiration, according to a new study. The study is the first…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For Nathan Bradford Jr., work doesn’t end after his full-time job. When he’s not working at a natural gas processing plant, he’s ranching in Bristow, Oklahoma. There’s a lot of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. While the number of reported hate crimes dipped slightly in 2018, violence against individuals rose to a 16-year high, according to numbers released Tuesday by the FBI. The main concern for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Racial inequality, be that in housing, education, jobs, or our justice system, is holding back our economy and limiting the realization of the American Dream. Too often, gridlock on Capitol…
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, approximately 12.6 million people were unemployed as of September 2020. Black and Latinx workers are bearing the brunt of these job losses, with…
On a recent episode of Money + Meaning, George Ashton, LISC’s managing director of Strategic Investments discusses the newly launched Black Economic Development Fund. Targeting up to $250 million and initially seeded by…