It's too early to say what the social, economic, and psychological damage caused by this pandemic will be, writes Ghosh, but we do know that children and youth are integral to a full recovery....

The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic require the global community to act fast, writes Kilpatrick, but not to act blindly or irresponsibly....

The president and CEO and the senior regional organizer at The Gathering for Justice urge grantmakers to think of community-based organizations as not only as vital community resources but as thought partners who know what vulnerable populations want and need....

According to Iyer and Kunreuther, foundations can do more to address the racial disparities laid bare by the pandemic by scaling organizations that are most proximate to needs in vulnerable communities while increasing their support for organizing and power-building strategies....

The CEO of Root Cause urges foundations to communicate their commitment to maintaining funding for grantees over an extended period of time and to even tap endowments to provide support for frontline responders and direct service providers....

As COVID-19 continues to spread globally, the executive director of Curamericas Global argues that now is the time for all who can act to act....

The call to prioritize equity is all the more imperative for funders during times of crisis, writes Baer, who offers a list of questions they should be asking....

Many of the challenges we face are too large and too complex to be solved by any individual organization working alone, write Milgrom-Elcott and Anderson, but most funding flows to individual organizations; this mismatch is a key reason why progress too often stalls....

The spread of COVID-19 in the United States, writes Barton, is about to bring us face-to-face with a simple fact: only fair wages, a strong social safety net, and universal paid family and medical leave will protect Americans from the worst consequences of the virus.... 

The chair of the Abele Family Foundation, who recently made an $11 million gift to Ursinus College for scholarships, urges philanthropists to think about the costs today's college students face and how they can pay forward the rewards they have received from their own education....

Haddad, chief of programs at Orbis International, a global nonprofit that works to transform lives through the prevention and treatment of avoidable blindness, recounts how a young medical student trained in Europe ended up dedicating his life to eliminating the scourge of trachoma....

The president of the Pascale Sykes Foundation and the managing director of Ascend at the Aspen Institute share five things human services agencies can do to deliver results for children in low-income families by adopting a two-generation (2Gen) approach....

The senior program manager and a program officer in the Open Society Foundations' Youth Exchange program share best practices with respect to engaging children and young people in donor spaces and conversations and giving them the space to tell us how best to support their movements....

Belnick, senior program director for college success at the ECMC Foundation, explains what the foundation is doing to address basic-needs insecurity on college campuses....