The American Talent Initiative, an alliance of leading U.S. colleges and universities, is driving progress toward its goal of increasing by fifty thousand the number of low- and moderate-income students attending high-graduation-rate institutions by 2025, an evaluation of the project finds. Launched in 2016 with support from Bloomberg...

A significant share of college students in the United States continue to face basic needs insecurity, with those attending community colleges and those from marginalized groups at greater risk, a report from the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice at Temple University finds. Based on survey responses from nearly 167,000 students from...

It is harder than ever for middle-income Americans to keep up with rising rents, a report from the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies finds. The report, America's Rental Housing 2020 (44 pages, PDF), found that with higher-income households accounting for much of the growth in rental demand since the Great Recession, new housing supply has...

A new report from the Council on Foundations, BNY Mellon, and Give2Asia provides an introduction to and basic guidance on conducting cross-border family philanthropy, with a focus on opportunities and challenges in the United States, Canada, China and Hong Kong, Singapore, and the United Kingdom. According to the report, Global Family...

Foundations must embrace "listening and learning" if they want to increase their impact and the degree to which their grantmaking, investments, and other assets and resources advance their mission, a report from the London-based Association of Charitable Foundations argues. Part of ACF's Stronger Foundations Initiative, the report, Impact and...

The television industry is making progress in terms of representing characters with a disability more authentically, a white paper from the Ruderman Family Foundation finds. A follow-up to a 2017 report, the paper, Authentic Representation in Television 2018, examined nearly three hundred shows on thirty-seven networks and four streaming...

Urban life in the twenty-first century will be shaped profoundly by urbanization, automation, and climate change, a report from the Aspen Institute's Future of Work Initiative and WeWork argues. Based on a survey of thirty thousand residents of fifty cities in eighteen countries, the report, The Future of Work and Cities (HTML or PDF, 45 pages),...

Five years after the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, African-American adults in states that expanded Medicaid eligibility are now less likely to be uninsured or to forgo care due to cost than white adults in non-expansion states, a data brief from the Commonwealth Fund finds. According to the report, How the Affordable Care Act Has...

National policies aimed at improving access to and equity in higher education must be specifically targeted to underserved student populations in order to achieve significant impact, a report from the Global Attainment and Inclusion Network (GAIN), a learning community coordinated by the American Council on Education and funded by the Lumina...

While women, LGBTQ people, and people with disabilities comprise a larger share of the staff and boards of arts and cultural organizations in Los Angeles County than they do of the county's population overall, staff and boards of those organizations are not as racially diverse as the local populace, a report from SMU DataArts and the Los...

Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have done much to advance educational innovation, academic excellence, and social justice for African Americans, and their strategies and practices can inform K-12 educational practices and systems, a report from UNCF's Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute argues. The report, Imparting...

A report from the Philanthropic Initiative on Racial Equity offers practical guidance for funders working to address social and environmental issues through a racial justice lens. A follow-up report to Grantmaking With a Racial Equity Lens, which was published in 2007 in partnership with GrantCraft, Grantmaking With a Racial Justice Lens: A...

General operating support is the most strategic and effective form of funding foundations can provide to a nonprofit, a case study report from the Marguerite Casey Foundation argues. The report, Advancing Social Change Through Movement Building, One Relationship at a Time (47 pages, PDF), examined the impact of the general operating support and...

Immigrants are an integral part of Los Angeles County, where more than a third of the population is foreign-born — up from 22 percent in 1980 — and 80 percent of foreign-born residents have been in the United States at least ten years, a report from the USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration and the California Community...