This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In collaboration with open innovation platform OpenIDEO, Minneapolis-based GHR Foundation is inviting social innovators to come together to address urgent global challenges at the intersections of peace, prosperity and planet in radically new ways.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When I was first appointed president of the Ford Foundation, I felt joy and excitement about the work to come. Every year since then, I have offered a September message…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Most people in poverty in the UK are white. According to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) report on UK poverty published in March, a whopping 81 per cent…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The migrant workers that farms across Canada and the U.S. rely on are being forced into increasingly precarious circumstances, according to new investigative reports in the New York Times and ProPublica. In…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As the minimum wage goes up in Seattle–with workers now required to make as much as $15 an hour, and all workers set to make that much by 2021–the city…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The damage that Hurricane Harvey is doing to the greater Houston area raises haunting memories of the devastation that New Orleans faced in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Once the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The New York Times piece, titled “When Families Lead Themselves Out of Poverty,” shines a light on the work that Lim Miller is doing to reshape how we think about…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In Bangladesh, nearly half of 55 million urban residents lack the sanitation infrastructure to properly process human waste. The result: massive amounts of raw waste is unsafely dumped, fouling the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Check out reliable websites Fantastic resources to verify the legitimacy of certain philanthropies are a few sites that keep records of real charities and ones that are more questionable. Probably…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For Richard A. Carranza, the newly appointed Superintendent of the Houston Independent School District, education has always represented a powerful gift brimming with opportunity. But he knows how hard it…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Drawing from a year-long research effort, we have identified opportunities where $1 billion of targeted private funding would have a chance to provide low-income individuals with an equal opportunity to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Urban schools don’t inspire much confidence these days. Politicians and policy leaders routinely bemoan their quality. And media outlets regularly run stories of “failing urban schools.” Middle- and upper-income parents have…