Business
The Roots of Workplace Gender Inequality
Executives who cite work-family conflict to explain lack of female advancement in firms embrace a myth to preserve the status quo. A research report from the Summer 2019 issue.
Tag: Human Capital
Health
Pay, Productivity, and Depression
Performance-based pay forces many employees to choose between leaving or suffering mental illness. A research report from the Summer 2019 issue.
Impact Investing
Capital for Justice: Spurring On Impact Investing for Racial Equity
How one foundation is building on a 50-year history of impact investing to unlock more capital and more justice toward greater equity, progress, and prosperity.
Impact Investing
Diversity and Inclusion: Turning Shared Value into Shared Success
A look at how one financial services organization is using an integrated impact investing approach to support diversity and economic inclusion.
Leadership
Three Ways to Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Philanthropy
If funders want to improve DEI in their organizations, they need to re-define risk, emphasize trust, and reflect the communities they serve.
Business
The Cost of Financial Precarity
Anxiety about debt and financial stability can severely reduce the productivity and health of employees, which can hurt a company’s bottom line. Businesses, government, and philanthropic organizations should embrace the case for improving the financial well-being of workers.
Social Services
Empathy Through Service
Programs like Teach for America can help participants take on the perspectives of those they seek to help.
Nonprofits & NGOs
Poorer Neighborhood, Fewer Charities
Lower-income communities have stronger need for nonprofits but struggle to attract and sustain them.
Social Services
Incarceration and Unemployment
Being imprisoned hurts people’s prospects for employment by taking them out of the job market.
Economic Development
The New Era of Refugee Investing
How investment can unlock the potential of refugees and help propel economic development.