This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. On any given weekend in Atlanta, you might find dozens of Black residents hiking Arabia Mountain, kayaking along the Chattahoochee River, or gathered around a campfire sharing stories. At the…
Organizers are working to plant 30,000 trees in New Orleans to restore the wetlands around the city that have remained destroyed since Hurricane Katrina, reports Melina Walling for The Associated Press. Native trees…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the United States, we have become accustomed to bursts of solidarity that show up during movement moments and national crises. In the past few months, people and organizations have…
Philanthropy isn’t short on generosity. What it lacks is visibility into whether that generosity is actually changing lives at scale and funding outcomes. Writing bigger checks no longer feels sufficient, because…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Revive Gaza’s Farmland Project launched by the Arab Group for the Protection of Nature (APN), is a coalition of farmers working to restore and cultivate farmland across Gaza. They hope to bolster…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The way we produce and distribute food today is deeply broken. Roughly 673 million people across the world deal with hunger every day, while nearly a third of the food…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Nigeria has the second-largest HIV epidemic globally, with approximately 2 million people living with HIV (PLHIV) as of 2023. Studies show women and adolescent girls in sub-Saharan Africa are more…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The work of social change is always pressing, but those who do that work are under extraordinary stress right now. The polycrisis—which philosopher Jonathan Rowson neatly defines as “the world system…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Today marks three years since a magnitude 7.8 earthquake shook southern Turkey and northern Syria, claiming more than 59,000 lives and further exacerbating the humanitarian crises in both countries. This earthquake was the most…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A few months ago, I met someone who had just experienced an unimaginable loss: An extraordinary, beloved family member had been killed in a mass shooting that made global headlines.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. New gifts to college endowments fell 9.2% in fiscal 2025 to just under $14 billion, with some colleges suffering steeper declines in donations, according to a study of over 650…
For the past two decades, drawing on research I conducted for ODI Global—and earlier for the Gerhart Centre at the American University in Cairo — on how foreign policy priorities shape humanitarian and…