This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. What Can Annual Appropriations/Spending Do? The most important item left on Congress’s active agenda related to homelessness is the annual funding bills for Fiscal Year 2023. In those bills, the Alliance…
In July, Ben and Jerry’s — one of the world’s largest ice cream brands — announced that it is committing to ensure all of its packaging, including the 1 million pint containers…
Powerful storm systems triggered flash flooding across the U.S. in late July, inundating St. Louis neighborhoods with record rainfall and setting off mudslides in eastern Kentucky, where at least 16…
This post highlights some of the ways animal advocacy groups are transforming the food system and other industries by increasing the availability of animal-free products. Our goal here is not…
If you look at homes on real estate websites today, you’ll likely see risk ratings for flooding, hurricanes and even wildfires. In theory, summarizing risk information like this should help…
Murder rates in rural America “have soared during the pandemic,” report Dan Frosch, Kris Maher and Zusha Elinson of The Wall Street Journal. Rebecca McCoy, prosecutor in White County, Arkansas,…
Decades after the Civil Rights Movement and the abolition of explicit racial discrimination, Black households in the United States still hold only a fraction of the wealth of White households.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. From a global pandemic to the recent invasion of Ukraine, globally impactful disasters are an increasingly frequent part of our reality, and thus an important factor as funders consider grantmaking…
It is now widely recognized that current racial economic gaps are the product of generations of both overtly racist public policies and more hidden biases embedded in choices, policies, and…
In collaboration with The Farmers Market Coalition (FMC), Black food system leaders and experts recently released a Toolkit to help farmers market managers improve the farmers market experience for Black,…
A recent survey by the Hope Center of more than 195,000 two-year and four-year college students found that about half experienced housing insecurity and about one in seven reported they either experienced…
Sitting on a wooden bench in a remote village in Rwanda, a 47-year-old woman named Esther, a mother of three, explains how she’ll spend more than 850,000 Rwandan francs. It’s a…