A two-generational program designed to improve literacy and school readiness among disadvantaged children in Northern Ireland helped improve reading skills among four- and five-year-olds, a report from Atlantic Philanthropies and Queen's University Belfast finds. The report, Ready to Learn: Working in Partnership with Schools and Families to Help...

Increasingly, state and local agencies, artist services organizations, and universities are offering training, resources, and technical assistance to help artists manage the business side of their creative practice, a report from the Pave Program in Arts Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University's Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts...

Property and casualty, life and annuity, and health insurance companies in the U.S. are unprepared to address the significant risks they face from climate change — or to take advantage of climate change-related opportunities, a report from Ceres finds. The report, Insurer Climate Risk Disclosure Survey Report & Scorecard: 2014 Findings...

With twenty-seven states and the District of Columbia planning (as of December 2014) to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, uninsurance rates are projected to fall across all racial/ethnic groups, with significant percentage-point drops projected among Latinos/Hispanics (from 31.2 percent to 19 percent) and American Indians/Alaska...

Restrictive voting laws implemented after the U.S. Supreme Court's 2013 decision in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder likely suppressed voter turnout in the 2014 midterm elections, a report from the Center for American Progress finds. The report, The Battle to Protect the Vote: Voter Suppression Efforts in Five States and Their Effect on the 2014...

Prison education programs, graduated sanctions for parole violations, and electronic monitoring for those on probation can significantly reduce recidivism, improve public safety, and reduce criminal justice spending, an issue brief from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts finds. Based on an analysis of...

Efforts to stimulate economic development and job growth must include initiatives to address the concentration of low-income women — especially single mothers — in low-wage jobs, a report from the Women's Fund of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation finds. The report, PULSE 2020 Jobs and Gender Outlook (8 pages, PDF), found that while...

In 2013, U.S.-based NGOs received more than a third of USAID's disbursements for global health efforts, a report from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation finds. The report, NGO Engagement in U.S. Global Health Efforts: U.S.-Based NGOs Receiving USG Support Through USAID (15 pages, PDF), found that a hundred and thirty-five NGOs working as...

Free, district-run summer-learning programs can help narrow the math achievement gap among low-income elementary school students, a RAND Corporation report finds. Commissioned by the Wallace Foundation, the report, Ready for Fall? Near-Term Effects of Voluntary Summer Learning Programs on Low-Income Students' Learning Opportunities and Outcome...

To attract, engage, and retain audiences more effectively, many arts organizations are paying closer attention to place — the settings where arts experiences are offered, a report from the Irvine Foundation finds. The report, Why "Where"? Because "Who": Arts Venues, Spaces and Tradition (45 pages, PDF), argues that offering arts programming in...

In the wake of the December 2012 shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, thirty-seven states have passed ninety-nine laws aimed at strengthening gun regulation, including ten states that have enacted major overhauls of their gun laws, a study by the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence finds. Funded in part by the Joyce...

While journalists are interested in getting more training of all kinds, digital technology training is seen as the most important, a report from the Poynter Institute and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation finds. Based on a survey of thirty-one newsrooms, the report, Constant Training: New Normal or Missed Opportunity? (34 pages, PDF),...

Launched in 2000 with $139 million in funding from Merck & Co., the Merck Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the government of Botswana, the African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships has had to adapt to constant change in areas such as epidemiology and HIV/AIDS policy, a report from FSG finds. The report, Adapting...

To ensure that they truly understand all students' concerns and challenges, education nonprofits need to do more to diversify their staffs, a report from Education Pioneers and Koya Leadership Partners finds. Based on a survey of education nonprofits, the report, From Intention to Action: Building Diverse, Inclusive Teams in Education to Deepen...