While nearly a third of all Americans are affected by intimate partner violence — including stalking, sexual violence, physical violence, and psychological aggression — young women and women of color experience such violence at higher rates, a report from the Kaiser Family Foundation finds. According to the report, Intimate Partner Violence...

Residents of segregated African-American and Latinx neighborhoods in the Bay Area experience significantly poorer life outcomes than residents of white neighborhoods in terms of income, housing equity, educational attainment, and life expectancy, a report from the Othering & Belonging Institute (formerly the Haas Institute for a Fair and...

Although the number of women of color who are eligible to vote in U.S. elections grew six times faster than the number of white women eligible to vote over the past decade, insufficient data collection, apathy on the part of lawmakers, and voter suppression efforts could undermine those gains while perpetuating racial and gender disparities, a...

Adults, parents, and employers see today's high school students as being less prepared to enter the workforce upon graduation than earlier generations of high school students, while half of today's students themselves feel unprepared, a survey conducted by the Global Strategy Group and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation finds. Based on an...

A new guide from Bloomberg Associates, Bloomberg Philanthropies' pro bono consulting arm, shares case studies of successful art-driven street projects from around the world as well as guidance with respect to developing such projects. Designed to help city agencies, community organizations, and artists champion and implement projects that deliver...

A report from the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Center for Global Health Science & Security at Georgetown University finds that donor government funding for family planning programs totaled nearly $1.5 billion in 2018, the highest level since KFF began tracking government funding after the 2012 London Summit on Family Planning. The report,...

Declines in recent years in the volunteering rate (from 25.6 percent in 2003 to 21.6 percent in 2015) and giving rates for young adults that seem to have stalled at around 41 percent — even as that cohort becomes better educated and more inclined to engage civically — are due in part to changes in young adults' attitudes toward milestones...

By identifying the schools most responsible for segregation within a district, county, or city, policy makers can advance desegregation efforts most likely to make a difference, a report from the Urban Institute argues. The report, When Is a School Segregated? Making Sense of Segregation 65 Years after Brown v. Board of Education (44 pages, PDF),...

Survey results and fiscal data from more than five hundred cities suggest an economic downturn may be in the offing, the 2019 edition of an annual report from the National League of Cities finds. According to City Fiscal Conditions 2019 (17 pages, PDF), the annual growth rate of spending by cities in the sample outpaced the rate of growth of...

Women are leaving the field of theater design and production — the most male-dominated field in the discipline — due to gender parity and equity issues, a study by researchers at Millikin University finds. Based on a survey of nearly six hundred female-identifying theater design and production practitioners, the report, Building a Better...

A new guide to impact investing from Calvert Impact Capital provides basic information for financial advisors — only 43 percent of whom believe it to be an important part of their practice — and explains the opportunity it represents, for advisors as well as their clients. Impact Investing: A Short Guide for Financial Advisors includes a...

Greater public investment in affordable high-quality child care is needed to advance equitable access and opportunity for low-income families and families of color, a report from the Center for American Progress argues. Based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Survey of Income and Program Participation, the report, Investing in Infant and...

A high-quality summer learning program that offers engaging academic and enrichment activities and helps close achievement and opportunity gaps for children from disadvantaged communities can and should be a part of school districts' year-round operations, a report from the Wallace Foundation finds. The report, Summer — A Time for Learning:...

A report from the Urban Institute offers guidance for establishing an evidence-based pay-for-success program for permanent supportive housing that combines affordable housing and wraparound services for people experiencing homelessness and/or with disabilities. How to Launch a Supportive Housing Pay for Success Initiative (18 pages, PDF)...