Kathleen Enright, the CEO of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) wrote this thought-provoking article. Here’s an excerpt: “[The] work to define effectiveness has typically come from white organizations – prominent consulting firms, think…
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It was in this function that I attended the Transforming Education Summit (‘the TES’) in late September. For the first time ever, the UN hosted a Heads of State summit…
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Indigenous people are at the frontlines of so many different struggles around the world, and we’re up against drastic odds. Our life expectancy rates are 5.5 years lower than the general US population,…
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I think the problem is that we’re thinking about poverty in the wrong way. The current focus is on what people lack: income, housing, etc. Yet I believe the better approach is…
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Many families—especially people of color—were already facing severe economic challenges because of structural barriers preventing them from reaping the benefits of a strong economy before the pandemic hit. These families…
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The past few decades have been filled with a deep optimism about the role of cities and suburbs across the world. These engines of economic growth host a majority of…
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Click here for more.Ending global poverty in our lifetime is an audacious mission. So many of Global Washington’s network works on pieces of this goal from different angles – increasing girls’ education or…
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The first task of the physician is to alleviate the suffering caused by the immediate symptoms of a disease — but you can eliminate the symptoms and not affect the…
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When students at Woodman School, on the western edge of Montana, are working on research projects in class, they don’t have the option to start their search with Google. If…
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If we want to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, we need to recognize and support the changemakers who are working toward them in their communities. Shifting, sharing, and ceding power…
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The reasons for the breakdown of our food systems are complex and interlinked. Though exacerbated by present day conflicts, the current global food crisis is a product of how our…
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In a recent report on the state of the world’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the U.N. Secretary General did not mince his words: “An urgent rescue effort is needed…to get the…