A report from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation provides basic guidelines for news organizations that are considering moving to a nonprofit or donor-subsidized model as a way to support local and investigative reporting. Philanthropic Options for Newspaper Owners: A Practical Guide (22 pages, PDF) provides a foundational explanation of...

A working paper developed by Child Trends with support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation offers step-by-step guidance to social science researchers looking to apply a racial/ethnic equity lens in their research and achieve more equitable outcomes for children, families, and communities. Based on interviews with researchers, funders, and...

Nearly fifty-four million people, or 27 percent of all U.S. adults under the age of 65, have pre-existing health conditions that would have made them uninsurable in individual insurance markets before the Affordable Care Act's prohibition against denying coverage based on pre-existing conditions went into effect in 2014, an analysis by the...

Nearly half (46 percent) of the 60 percent of working-age Americans who do not have a college degree believe they need further education and training to advance their careers, a report from the Strada Education Network and Gallup finds. Based on the Strada-Gallup Education Consumer Survey, the report, Back to School? What Adults Without Degrees...

Theater organizations in the United States saw a significant drop in contributed revenue in 2010 and early signs in 2017 point to another downward trend, a report from SMU DataArts and the Theatre Communications Group finds. Based on data from seventy-five theaters, the report, Theatres at the Crossroads: Overcoming Downtrends & Protecting...

Global companies that employ millions of women in manufacturing and services have an opportunity to invest in the health and empowerment of those women and help advance the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals — specifically goals related to health and well-being (SDG 3) and gender equality (SDG 5), a report from the United Nations...

Greater integration of arts education into health and educational programs for children, youth, and older adults is needed to better support healthy cognitive, social, and behavioral development and outcomes across an individual's lifespan, a report from the National Endowment for the Arts argues. The report, The Arts and Human...

In 2018 nonprofit news organizations received 43 percent of total revenue from foundation funding, 39 percent from individual donations, and 12 percent from earned revenue, a report from the Institute of Nonprofit News finds. Based on data from more than a hundred of INN's member organizations, the report, INN Index 2019: The State of Nonprofit...

Launched in 2015 by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and Corporation for National and Community Service, the Learn and Earn to Achieve Potential (LEAP) program is helping to improve education and employment outcomes for youth who are in foster care, involved in the criminal justice system, or homeless, an evaluation by MDRC finds. Funded by...

Nearly two in five Americans (38 percent) now describe climate change as a "crisis," up from 23 percent in 2014, while 52 percent believe either that action must be taken within a decade to avoid the worst effects of climate change or that it already is too late to prevent the worst from happening, a survey conducted by the Kaiser Family...

Adult obesity rates in the United States reached record levels in 2018, with rates above 35 percent in nine states, up from seven states in 2017, an annual report from the Trust for America's Health finds. Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the report, The State of Obesity: Better Policies for a Healthier America 2019 (92 pages, PDF),...

Education leaders, community partners, and policy makers can use data on chronic absenteeism to address inequities and improve outcomes, a report from Attendance Works and the American Institutes for Research finds. Funded by the United Way of Southeastern Michigan, the California Endowment, and the Jonathan Logan Family, Skillman, and...

A rapid rise in home prices is straining the budgets of many Colorado households, even as discriminatory policies and practices exacerbate the burden on families of color, a report from the Colorado Health Institute finds. Funded by the Colorado Trust and informed by eighteen partner organizations of the trust's Health Equity Advocacy Cohort,...

As of August 2019, twenty-nine states had policies that were inimical to abortion rights, while fourteen had policies that were more supportive of such rights, a report from the Guttmacher Institute finds. Based on an analysis of six types of abortion restrictions (including an abortion ban, required waiting period, and restrictions on Medicaid...