Most pregnancy-related deaths in the United States are preventable. What we are witnessing is not inevitability. It is failure in policy design, implementation, and accountability.
Maternal Mortality Is a Policy Failure
The Politics of Loving Kindness: Insights from a Birth Equity Initiative
What might happen across our country if those working to make life better for our neighbors embraced the politics of loving kindness? What if we were explicit about caring for all people, more than corporations or profit?
‘It’s a Safe Space’: Mobile Midwifery Clinics Meet Patients Where They Are
One clinic in Miami-Dade County, Florida, offers free midwifery care directly to majority-Black and Latino neighborhoods.
What If I Freeze with a Major Donor Ask?
In this installment of Ask Rhea, Rhea offers advice on how to rethink pitching to major donors and avoid negotiating against yourself.
Getting $750 a Month Didn’t End Homelessness—but Our Study Shows It Still Improved the Lives of Homeless People
A new study explores whether giving homeless people $750 a month to use any way they choose can help them move into long-term housing.
Bridging Funders to the Front Lines: Pluralism and Greater Philanthropic Opportunity
Two former institutional funders share their analysis on why collaborative funding guided by movement-rooted intermediaries are necessary—yet underutilized—infrastructure to address today’s social and environmental challenges.
Why Americans Give: New Research Finds 5 Distinct Profiles for Generosity
About 82 percent of Americans said in response to a survey that they give to charity or to people in need.
The Meaningful Reset: Designing Nonprofits to Survive Board-Staff Conflict
To survive and evolve from board-staff conflict, nonprofits must proceed with clarity and intention by analyzing root causes, addressing what needs to change, and resetting in meaningful ways that strengthen relationships and the organization as a whole.
New York Expands Its Sanctuary Vision to Include LGBTQIA+ Communities
Expanding sanctuary protections does not undermine existing commitments to immigrants but rather strengthens the city’s broader promise of safety.
Trapped and Alone: Fear of ICE Is Deepening Postpartum Isolation for Immigrant Mothers
Doctors say newly postpartum people need medical care, sleep and the ability to rely on friends and family for help. Immigration crackdowns have made that support impossible.
Weakening the Equal Credit Opportunity Act Will Widen Inequality
Proposed changes from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would weaken discrimination protections when people seek credit.
Speaking Up Almost Cost Me My Job, but We Built Power Anyway
Justice, even at nonprofits, isn’t given. It’s built, slowly, imperfectly, by people who never planned to become organizers, but who refuse to stay small.