Social Services
No-Strings Cash
Nonprofits are piloting direct cash transfer programs to help people experiencing homelessness.
Tag: United States
Health
Keep Our New Health Systems
Community health workers, neighborhood clinics, and real-time data bolstered America’s COVID-19 response. They could now form the cornerstone for more equitable health care.
Collaboration
The Importance of Place
Through place-based work, we have learned new ways to partner, collect data, and invest to bring systemic change and eliminate structural inequalities in our communities.
Advocacy
Nonprofit Capture
Corporate donations tend to generate supportive regulatory comments from their nonprofit recipients.
Education
Supporting Students After Juvenile Detention
Researchers find that relationship-building exercises between troubled students and their teachers cut recidivism.
Podcast
Human Rights
Crisis and Change: Conversations With Leaders—Race and Diversity Today
Crystal Hayling of The Libra Foundation and Sonal Shah of The Asian American Foundation discuss how their organizations are transforming the way race is discussed in America and how to improve understanding about racial concerns that will lead to a more inclusive society. Produced in partnership with The Pew Charitable Trusts.
Podcast
Leadership
Crisis and Change: Conversations With Leaders—Political Polarization
Susan Urahn of The Pew Charitable Trusts and Sarah Rosen Wartell of the Urban Institute discuss the many challenges facing American democracy—and ways to find common ground in a polarized environment. Produced in partnership with The Pew Charitable Trusts.
Government
What the Infrastructure Bill Reveals About Today’s Policymaking Environment
The passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act gives those of us in the nonpartisan public policy space reason to be optimistic.
Philanthropy & Funding
Endow Black-Led Nonprofits
Endowments are often lacking for social change nonprofits—even more so for Black-led organizations. By closing this gap, we could radically transform how we confront society’s most pressing issues.
Open-access to this article made possible by The Bridgespan Group.
Health
Reimagining the US Public Health Sector
How five challenging realities are thwarting progress in public health, and how the sector can build strength to advance health equity, prepare for future pandemics, and face other emerging challenges.