The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a toll on the physical, emotional, and financial well-being of Californians, especially those living in poverty, a report from the California Health Care Foundation finds. Based on a statewide survey of more than twenty-two hundred adults between the ages of 18 and 64, the report, Listening to Californians With...

A report from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences calls for the legal profession, the courts, law schools, tech professionals, and others to help expand access to legal assistance for people in need who cannot afford counsel and face devastating consequences as a result, including eviction, family separation, job loss, and disrupted...

Forty-two hundred children in New York State — one in a thousand — lost a parent to the coronavirus pandemic between March and July 2020, a report from the United Hospital Fund and Boston Consulting Group finds. The report, COVID-19 Ripple Effect: The Impact of COVID-19 on Children in New York State (Part 1, 20 pages, PDF; Part 2, pages,...

A report from Commonfund and the Commonfund Institute offers guidance for fiduciaries of university endowments — as well as tools, products and best practices — with respect to investing in racial equity. The report, Investing in Racial Equity: A Primer for University & College Endowments (40 pages, PDF), outlines how racial...

Some major arts institutions were taking proactive and innovative steps to better engage audiences and benefit local communities well before the COVID-19 pandemic and nationwide protests against systemic racism, a report from TDC finds. Commissioned by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the report, Leveraging Momentum: A Study of...

Involvement with the criminal justice system early in life results in significantly lower lifetime earnings, perpetuating a cycle of poverty that disproportionately affects African-American and Latinx individuals, a report from the Brennan Center for Justice finds. Based on 2017 data, the report, Conviction, Imprisonment, and Lost Earnings: How...

Efforts to support college students who are also parents should include flexible wraparound services tailored to the multifaceted identities of student-parents, a report from Imaginable Futures and Lumina Foundation finds. The report, The Rise Prize: Fostering Innovation to Support Student Parents (20 pages, PDF), offers key takeaways from the...

More than 2.2 million women of childbearing age in the United States live in "maternity care deserts" — areas lacking a hospital that offers obstetric care, a birth center, or an obstetric provider — while another 4.8 million live in counties where only limited maternity care is available, a report from March of Dimes finds. The report,...

A majority of funders who run "lean" — including individual donors, families engaged in philanthropy, and foundations with few or no staff — have changed their funding approach in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a report from Exponent Philanthropy and PEAK Grantmaking finds. The report, COVID-19: How Have Funders Changed Their Approach...

A report from the Committee for Greater LA, the University of California, Los Angeles Luskin School of Public Affairs, and the University of Southern California Dornsife Equity Research Institute offers a blueprint for addressing structural and systemic racism. Supported by the Ballmer Group, the California Endowment, Southern California...

Significant gaps in child well-being can be found in forty-one relatively wealthy European Union and OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) countries, a report from UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti finds. Based on an analysis of pre-COVID-19 data in areas such as children's mental well-being, physical health, and...

Girls of color, especially African-American girls, are disciplined at a much higher rate and more severely at school than their white peers, a report from the Appleseed Network, a network of nonprofits in the United States and Mexico working to advance social and legal justice, finds. Based on data collected by the U.S. Department of Education...

An organizational culture that does not put enough emphasis on fundraising is a key challenge facing many LGBT groups, a report from the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund finds. The report, LGBT Giving Project 2011-2020 (68 pages, PDF), highlights findings from an initiative of the Haas, Jr. Fund, Horizons Foundation, and the Keven J. Mossier...

A publication from the Council on Foundations offers guidance for corporate philanthropy leaders facing critical questions about combining philanthropies in connection with a business merger or acquisition. Informed by discussions with practitioners and attorneys, Navigating Mergers & Acquisitions: Guidance for Corporate Philanthropy...