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Embracing Healing Justice in California
A Stockton, Calif., organization is striving to transform its city through culturally
rooted, healing-centered practices and a pedagogy of love.
Social Issues - Articles
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Ending LGBT Health Inequities
Philanthropy can pursue several effective approaches to improve LGBT health.
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Achieving Healthy Communities Through Transit Equity
Expanding public transit systems to connect low-income communities to healthy environments, high-quality education, and well-paying jobs isn’t enough. Transit has to be affordable as well as accessible.
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Using Fair Housing to Achieve Health Equity
Fair housing initiatives that focus on dispersion ignore the social structures and processes that result in the inequitable distribution of resources necessary for health.
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Reducing Health Disparities in Atlanta
A coalition of organizations is improving the health of low-income communities.
Serving Up Data
The Human Needs Index offers complex, near-real-time information on how people across the United States use social services.
Sunshine Snapshot
An online tool called Project Sunroof provides homeowners with a clear picture of whether they should go solar.
Leaving People Alone
Survival International helps tribal societies protect their land—and
their way of life—from encroachment and unwelcome development.
Big Change on Campus
Six years ago, the City Colleges of Chicago launched its own turnaround effort—a bid for “reinvention”—and now it’s earning high marks for improved performance.
There Is No Such Thing as a Green Product
Touting products like LEDs and recycled plastic packaging as “green” is misleading, because it fails to account for their effects on markets and consumer behavior and for the resulting environmental consequences. The authors offer what they say is a better approach: measuring the overall "net green" impact of the product.