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Queering Mentorship

The Minneapolis-based nonprofit QUEERSPACE Collective provides mentorship and community to queer youth at a time when they are facing endless attacks.

TV for Africa’s Deaf Community

By Valentine Benjamin

Signs TV Uganda offers programming by deaf broadcasters that is also interpreted in sign to serve Africa’s growing, yet underserved, hearing-impaired demographic.

Discipline, Punish, and Palliate

By Chana R. Schoenberger

Palliative measures such as needle-exchange programs form a third model of neoliberal urban-poverty governance alongside policing and paternalism.

Housing and Homelessness: Breaking Down Silos for Systems Change

By Seyron Foo, Raji Hunjan & Amy Kleine 3

Lessons for funders and social change leaders in search of the best ways to collaborate across sectors to end homelessness.

Making the Affordable Aspirational: Increasing the Adoption of Frugal Innovations at the Base of the Pyramid

By Cristian Granados & Jaideep Prabhu

Companies and nonprofits need to be more realistic and empathetic that consumers’ decisions are not purely driven by cost.

Digital Service Development Needs an Ethical Pause

By Kit Miklik

The ethical pause—a short period of reflection and inquiry about a project’s ethical implications and the team’s approach to the work—helps ensure teams ask the right questions and address issues of inequity and access in the services they develop.

Arts & Culture

Building a Culture of Belonging

By Kathryn Dickason

Mosaic America fosters intercultural awareness and respect through its artistic programming.

Health

Expanding Abortion Access in Post-Roe America

By Shruthi Jayaram, Eliza Ennis, Saalar Aghili & Erin Barringer

Four promising strategies to expand equitable access to safe and legal abortion care in the United States—and the particular role of philanthropic actors in advancing them.