A case study funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and conducted by Global Learning Partners describes how a workforce development program can effectively incorporate efforts to strengthen executive skills — the cognitive abilities needed to set goals, develop plans, and follow through on them, such as organization, time management, and...

According to an annual report from the American Cancer Society, the death rate from cancer in the United States fell 29 percent between 1991 and 2017, including a 2.2 percent drop from 2016 to 2017, the largest single-year drop ever recorded. Published in the journal CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, Cancer Statistics, 2020 found that the...

Despite an e-cigarette epidemic that threatens to undermine progress in reducing youth tobacco use, most states continue to shortchange programs aimed at preventing kids from using tobacco products, a report from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, the American Cancer Society-Cancer Action Network, the American Heart Association, the American...

Even as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex people face attacks from the Trump administration and state legislation targeting them, many national LGBTQI organizations have seen an increase in revenues, an annual report from the Movement Advancement Project (MAP) finds. Based on an analysis of forty LGBTQI nonprofits, the...

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation's grantmaking around diversity, equity, and inclusion (OE-DEI) has helped strengthen grantee capacity to foster organizational inclusiveness and apply an equity lens to programs and services, an evaluation finds. Authored by Community Wealth Partners, The Hewlett Foundation OE-DEI Grants Final Report (46...

The Kresge Foundation's Climate Resilience and Urban Opportunity (CRUO) Initiative — a five-year, $29 million effort launched in 2014 to build the capacity of community-based organizations to shape climate-resilience activities in ways that better reflect the priorities and needs of low-income urban communities — helped clarify the concept of...

Operationalizing racial and social equity values in grantmaking involves challenging and addressing all dimensions of the process, from the application portal, to communication tools, to guidelines and requirements, a case study of the MAP Fund by Animating Democracy, a program of Americans for the Arts, finds. Funded by the Hemera Foundation,...

According to a December 2018 survey by the Urban Institute, one in ten U.S. adults (10.3 percent) between the ages of 18 and 64 and more than one in five (21.6 percent) of those with household incomes below 200 percent of the federal poverty level said they or someone in their family had relied on food pantries or free meal programs in the past...

Philanthropy can help address the recent rise in violence and hate speech — as well as public rhetoric that seems to encourage violence in the United States — by strengthening the long-term foundations of a healthy democracy and society, a report from New America and Over Zero argues. Funded by the Democracy Fund, the report, Building U.S....

Although a growing number of cities are rolling out pre-kindergarten programs, few programs meet quality standards benchmarks associated with long-term benefits such as lower rates of crime and teen pregnancy, higher lifetime earnings, and better health outcomes, while those that do reach too few children, a report from CityHealth, an initiative...

According to a report from the New York State Attorney General's Office, professional fundraisers retained 27 percent of the funds they raised for charities in New York State in 2018. The report, Pennies for Charities: Where Your Money Goes; Fundraising by Professional Fundraisers (14 pages, PDF), examined nearly nine hundred fundraising...

African-American professionals are more likely to report they've experienced racial prejudice and/or microaggressions at work (58 percent) than their Latinx (41 percent), Asian-American (38 percent), or white (15 percent) peers, while their non-black colleagues remain largely unaware of such incidents, a report from the Center for Talent...

Regulatory changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) proposed by the Trump administration — tightening the criteria by which states request waivers for able-bodied adults without dependents who do not meet work requirements, restricting states' ability to modify income limits and asset tests, and standardizing the method...

Efforts to improve elementary school math proficiency and diversity in STEM fields require a shared vision about effective instruction that is then integrated into university curricula and teacher preparation and professional development programs, a report from 100Kin10 finds. Funded by the Heising-Simons Foundation and CME Group Foundation, the...