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.
Fair housing initiatives that focus on dispersion ignore the social structures and processes that result in the inequitable distribution of resources necessary for health.
A coalition of organizations is improving the health of low-income communities.
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.
The success of the Housing First movement shows why social service providers must listen to the people they serve.
With an understanding of these 10 funding models, nonprofit leaders can use the for-profit world's valuable practice of engaging in succinct and clear conversations about long-term financial strategy.
Six pathways to making housing more affordable and available from the Ivory Prize for Housing Affordability.
A look at how Switzerland radically and successfully changed its approach to drug policy following a heroin epidemic in the late 1980s and 90s, and what the effort teaches us about the social innovation process.
How standardized testing, gentrification, school choice, and economic downturn have widened inequality to create an existential threat to democracy.
How government and philanthropy can unlock the billions needed to shelter America’s unhoused
