This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Panamanian Indigenous Ngäbe Buglé Peoples and fisherfolk have practiced ancestral fishing in the provinces of Veraguas, Bocas del Toro, and Chiriquí for more than a hundred years. In February…
I don’t need to tell you that 2025 has been an extremely challenging year. Let me offer up an incomplete list of actions of the current presidential administration that should…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Across the world, the progress of democracy has slowed, if not reversed. According to Freedom House’s ratings, 23 countries became less free between 2013 and 2024—including India, Turkey, Hungary, and Indonesia—while…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Breaking the industrial animal agriculture machine and reducing factory farming could be the most powerful, compassionate, and catalytic investment funders can make today. I was eight when I started fostering…
As international aid falters, communities across the Global South face devastating consequences—clinics shuttered, teachers unpaid, and millions of lives expected to be lost. Amid this crisis, philanthropic collaboration has never…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. On a humid Friday evening in early September, staff at Farm School New York City (FSNYC), an urban agriculture education nonprofit, called an emergency town hall to share a critical…
In Asia, nonprofits are leading the way in developing green tech solutions to address water scarcity and pollution in the region. With technical and communications support from Google.org and the Asian Development…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. S&P joins Moody’s Ratings in its gloomy forecast of higher education’s financial prospects in the new year. Moody’s issued a negative outlook for the overall sector in November, citing similar woes: enrollment…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Since its founding in 2020, Borealis Philanthropy’s Racial Equity in Journalism Fund has remained steadfast in its commitment to resourcing the community-rooted media ecosystem as an antidote to mis- and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. America is in a period of profound transition — and not just because of changing federal policies under a new presidential administration. Over the past decade, the nation has experienced…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Sri Lanka has been hit by its worst disaster since the 2004 tsunami. The country is struggling to recover after Cyclone Ditwah brushed the coast in late November, causing massive flooding and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Seventy years have passed since Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat on a Montgomery bus, and yet the country still tries to shrink her into that single moment —…