Efforts to support social, emotional, and academic development and to address racial equity cannot be pursued separately, as aspects of the two issues are mutually reinforcing, a report from the Aspen Institute argues. The report, Pursuing Social and Emotional Development Through a Racial Equity Lens: A Call to Action (12 pages, PDF), calls for...

Battery storage can jumpstart clean energy markets and support efforts to address climate change while promoting advances in public health, equity, and justice, a report from Clean Energy Group argues. Funded by the JPB, Kresge, and Surdna foundations, among others, the report, Jump Start: How Activists and Foundations Can Champion Battery...

The United States' overall readiness for managing health emergencies has been improving steadily since 2013, an assessment by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation finds. Based on indicators tied to health security and surveillance, community planning and engagement, incident and information management, healthcare delivery, countermeasure...

In general, private debt funds focused on social impact can offer impact investors stable returns, a report from the Global Impact Investing Network and Symbiotics finds. Based on an analysis of the aggregate performance since 2012 of fifty private debt impact funds (PDIFs) and more than a hundred community development loan funds (CDLFs), the...

New York's Close to Home juvenile justice reform initiative — which supports efforts to transfer young offenders from large, dangerous, and ineffective facilities to community-based alternatives and expand family-based support services and interventions — has generated significant benefits for the city's youth, their families, and their...

A majority of women journalists face the threat of online harassment when engaging with audiences on social media as part of their jobs, a report from the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin Moody College of Communication finds. Based on interviews with seventy-five female journalists in Germany, India, Taiwan, the...

The Cities of Service Love Your Block program — a three-year initiative supported by the Corporation for National and Community Service and Bloomberg Philanthropies that was designed to help mayors engage low-income residents in community-revitalization efforts — did in fact help strengthen social cohesion among residents, a report...

A thriving arts environment is essential for youth development and social justice, yet traditional approaches to arts philanthropy are insufficient to address the lack of access to arts programming for underserved youth of color, a report from the Memphis Music Initiative argues. The report, Toward the Future of Arts Philanthropy: The Disruptive...

The social and emotional environment in the classroom and school have a profound impact on students' ability and willingness to learn, a report from the Aspen Institute argues. The report, The Practice Base for How We Learn: Supporting Students' Social, Emotional, and Academic Development (20 pages, PDF), offers guidance from the Council of...

Well-planned investments in urban resilience to mitigate the impacts of climate change can also improve a city's economic performance and livability, a report from the Urban Land Institute finds. Funded by the Kresge Foundation and the New York Community Trust, the report, Ten Principles for Building Resilience (44 pages, PDF), outlines the...

Even as the Trump administration pushed for a return to 1990s-era "tough on crime" policies for federal prosecution, state and local criminal justice reform efforts saw significant progress in 2017, a report from the Vera Institute of Justice finds. According to the interactive report, The State of Justice Reform 2017, grassroots campaigns helped...

School districts planning to launch voluntary summer learning programs to address opportunity gaps in learning for low-income children must include targeted recruitment efforts, a report from the Wallace Foundation argues. The Summer Learning Recruitment Guide (32 pages, PDF) highlights lessons learned from five school districts that participated...

Building a collaborative, multidisciplinary research network supports the implementation of effective programs by enabling researchers and policy makers set mutual goals, define shared metrics and protocols, collect meaningful data, and share various perspectives and learnings, a report from the Foundation for Child Development argues. The...

A plurality of millennials believe that advances in technology will reduce the number of jobs in the United States in coming years, a report from the GenForward Project at the University of Chicago finds. Based on a survey of more than seventeen hundred and fifty people between the ages of 18 and 34, the report, Millennials and Technology: An...