This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When a receptionist hands out a form to fill out at a doctor’s office, the questions are usually about medical issues: What’s the visit for? Are you allergic to anything?…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Seventeen years ago, Mauricio Lim Miller, a leader in the field of social services, received a phone call from Jerry Brown, who was the mayor of Oakland, Calif., at the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This year’s Red Nose Day raised over $38 million in the United States, about a 20 percent increase from last year. Since its stateside launch in 2015, the campaign has brought in an estimated $98 million to support…
Britt-Marie Cole-Johnson of Wallingford, CT, tells us why she believes working with young girls is the best way to effect change in a community. I feel very strongly that when…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Conventional design education believes that by training the mind and the hand, a designer can solve just about any problem. In many ways, this works beautifully. Designers leave their schooling…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The event “Wealth, Philanthropy, and Inequality”, featured a conversation between Jeff Raikes and Ethics in Society Program Director Rob Reich. Raikes is the CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates…
Half of the world’s poorest people have something in common: they’re small farmers. In this eye-opening talk, activist Andrew Youn shows how his group, One Acre Fund, is helping these…
As a global community, we all want to end poverty. Mia Birdsong suggests a great place to start: Let’s honor the skills, drive and initiative that poor people bring to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Broadway musical Hamilton has a line that elicits thunderous applause every night—“Immigrants, we get the job done.” Recent research shows us that the line could just as accurately state, “Immigrants, we…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When College Access Now (CAN) first applied for an SVP grant, no one could have predicted how the organization would evolve. Now in their fifth and final year as an…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Every child deserves a quality education. Yet some 264 million children and teens worldwide are not in school. Now, UNICEF is joining forces with Amazon to make sure more kids…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. There are three key measures of financial inequality: income, consumption and wealth. Usually, the term inequality is used to mean income inequality, as it’s the basis for most measures and…