Although many U.S. companies are taking steps to address urgent environmental and social issues, progress on those issues is uneven, a report from Ceres finds. The report, Turning Point: Corporate Progress on the Ceres Roadmap for Sustainability (127 pages, PDF), analyzed data from more than six hundred of the largest publicly traded companies in...

The persistent lack of ethnic/racial and gender diversity in the tech industry is the result of structural and social/psychological barriers at every stage of the talent development pipeline, a report from the Kapor Center for Social Impact finds. The report, The Leaky Tech Pipeline: A Comprehensive Framework for Understanding and Addressing the...

While people of color and women have made gains in the film and television industry over the last five years, they remain significantly underrepresented, a report from the University of California, Los Angeles College of Social Sciences finds. The report, Hollywood Diversity Report 2018: Five Years of Progress and Missed Opportunities (84 pages,...

A Kresge Foundation initiative launched in partnership with the National College Access Network yielded tangible and meaningful increases in the completion rates of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), an evaluation by Higher Ed Insight finds. The report, Money Doesn't Grow on Trees: How 22 Cities Helped High School Students...

Cities with large Internet sectors — industries that create and/or rely on the features and scale of the Internet — tend to have larger populations, greater overall productivity, higher income levels, and lower unemployment and poverty rates, a report from the National League of Cities and the Internet Association finds. Using the Internet...

Supporting the development of responsive educational systems that provide a place-based, culturally appropriate education for young Native American children can help ensure their academic and social success at a foundational age, a report from the American Indian College Fund finds. The report, Tribal College and University Childhood Education...

Funders working to promote "cultural equity" need to implement integrated strategies and make meaningful investments in arts organizations run by and/or serving African, LatinX, Asian, Arab, and Native American (ALAANA) communities and cultures, a report commissioned by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the New York Community Trust and...

More than three-quarters of millennials agree that undocumented immigrants who meet eligibility requirements for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program should be allowed to gain U.S. citizenship, a survey by the GenForward Project at the University of Chicago finds. Based on interviews with nearly nineteen hundred individuals...

African Americans suffer disproportionately high rates of maternal and infant death in part as a result of the stress caused by institutional racism and sexism, an issue brief from the Center for American Progress finds. Based on a literature review, the brief, Exploring African Americans' High Maternal and Infant Death Rates (HTML, 13 pages,...

The nascent field of climate adaptation in the United States is not yet equal to the task, or evolving quickly or deliberately enough, to manage worsening climate threats, a report from the Kresge Foundation finds. Based on interviews, surveys, and a literature review, the report, Rising to the Challenge, Together (106 pages, PDF), found that...

Schools are not adequately teaching the history of slavery in the United States and the impact it continues to have on race relations, a report from the Southern Poverty Law Center finds. Based on a survey of high school seniors and social studies teachers, as well as an analysis of fifteen state standards and ten widely used U.S. history books,...

Realizing the benefits of collaboratively designed online college courses and teaching resources requires significant support from participating institutions and a backbone organization, a report from Ithaka S+R finds. The report, Faculty Collaboration and Technology in the Liberal Arts: Lessons From a Teagle Grant Program (14 pages, PDF),...

After a decade of increases under the Bush and Obama administrations, changes to and proposed funding cuts for U.S. global health policy under the Trump administration will have significant implications for global health and development, an issue brief from the Kaiser Family Foundation finds. Based on the January 2018 Kaiser Health Tracking Poll...

Americans' acceptance of and comfort with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender individuals fell in 2017, a report from LGBTQ media advocacy organization GLAAD finds. The report, Accelerating Acceptance 2018 (executive summary, 3 pages, PDF), found that for the first time since GLAAD began commissioning Harris to poll on the issue in 2014, the...