Foundations must embrace "listening and learning" as an organization if they are to enhance their impact, defined as the effects of their resources, activities, and behaviors — grantmaking, investments, and use of other assets and resources — and the extent to which those effects contribute to their mission, a report from the London-based...

The television industry is making progress in terms of representing characters with a disability more authentically, a white paper from the Ruderman Family Foundation finds. A follow-up to a 2017 report, the paper, Authentic Representation in Television 2018, examined nearly three hundred shows on thirty-seven networks and four streaming...

Urban life in the twenty-first century will be shaped profoundly by urbanization, automation, and climate change, a report from the Aspen Institute's Future of Work Initiative and WeWork argues. Based on a survey of thirty thousand residents of fifty cities in eighteen countries, the report, The Future of Work and Cities (HTML or PDF, 45 pages),...

Five years after the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, African-American adults in states that expanded Medicaid eligibility are now less likely to be uninsured or to forgo care due to cost than white adults in non-expansion states, a data brief from the Commonwealth Fund finds. According to the report, How the Affordable Care Act Has...

National policies aimed at improving access to and equity in higher education must be specifically targeted to underserved student populations in order to achieve significant impact, a report from the Global Attainment and Inclusion Network (GAIN), a learning community coordinated by the American Council on Education and funded by the Lumina...

While women, LGBTQ people, and people with disabilities comprise a larger share of the staff and boards of arts and cultural organizations in Los Angeles County than they do of the county's population overall, staff and boards of those organizations are not as racially diverse as the local populace, a report from SMU DataArts and the Los...

Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have done much to advance educational innovation, academic excellence, and social justice for African Americans, and their strategies and practices can inform K-12 educational practices and systems, a report from UNCF's  Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute argues. The report, Imparting...

A report from the Philanthropic Initiative on Racial Equity offers practical guidance for funders working to address social and environmental issues through a racial justice lens. A follow-up report to Grantmaking With a Racial Equity Lens, which was published in 2007 in partnership with GrantCraft, Grantmaking With a Racial Justice Lens: A...

General operating support is the most strategic and effective form of funding foundations can provide to a nonprofit, a case study report from the Marguerite Casey Foundation argues. The report, Advancing Social Change Through Movement Building, One Relationship at a Time (47 pages, PDF), examined the impact of the general operating support and...

Immigrants are an integral part of Los Angeles County, where more than a third of the population is foreign-born — up from 22 percent in 1980 — and 80 percent of foreign-born residents have been in the United States at least ten years, a report from the USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration and the California Community...

A case study funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and conducted by Global Learning Partners describes how a workforce development program effectively incorporated efforts to strengthen executive skills — the cognitive abilities needed to set goals, develop plans, and follow through. The report, Implementing an Executive Skills Approach:...

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...