Between 2007 and 2011, the financial health of arts and culture organizations in the greater Philadelphia region remained weak, even as competition for audiences and donors increased, a report commissioned by the William Penn Foundation finds. Conducted by TDC, the study, Capitalization, Scale, and Investment: Does Growth Equal Gain? (31 pages,...

Nearly a quarter of a million undocumented immigrants are enrolled in two- and four-year institutions of higher education in the United States, a report from the UndocuScholars Project of the Institute for Immigration, Globalization, & Education at the University of California, Los Angeles finds. Based on a survey of more than nine hundred...

Disability is often both a cause of poverty — through job loss, barriers to education and skills development, and additional expense — and a consequence of poverty, as a result of having limited access to health care and/or living and working in hazardous environments, a report from the Center for American Progress finds. According to the...

Many boys and young men of color are at risk of poor health and developmental outcomes as a result of being exposed to the chronic stress and trauma of living in poor households in segregated, disadvantaged communities, a report from the Urban Institute finds. The report, Promoting Healthy Families and Communities for Boys and Young Men of Color...

Like other minority groups, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people face significant health disparities, yet less than 0.5 percent of foundation funding for health is directed to LGBTQ communities, a report from Funders for LGBTQ Issues finds. According to the report, Vital Funding: Investing in LGBTQ Health and Wellbeing (28 pages, PDF),...

International nongovernmental organizations increasingly see multi-stakeholder cross-sector collaboration as leading to more innovative solutions and deeper, broader, more sustained impact, a report from FSG finds. The report, The Promise of Partnerships: A Dialogue Between INGOs and Donors (12 pages, PDF), summarizes an October 2014 discussion...

Many high-performing community college students who could transfer to and succeed at a four-year institution are unable to do so due to a lack of quality advising, limited financial aid, and confusing credit transfer policies, a report from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation finds. The report, Breaking Down Walls: Increasing Access to Four-Year...

Efforts to achieve racial justice must focus not only on institutional racism but on preventing racism before it occurs, an action guide from the Annie E. Casey Foundation suggests. According to Embracing Equity: 7 Steps to Advance and Embed Race Equity and Inclusion Within Your Organization (16 pages, PDF), organizations working to achieve...

The framework for nonprofit capacity building must evolve beyond individuals and nonprofits to include funders, the private sector, government, management support organizations, and networks, a report from TCC Group finds. The report, Capacity Building 3.0: How to Strengthen the Social Ecosystem (32 pages, PDF), argues that there needs to be a...

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...