Grassroots community coalitions are generating outsized impact and demonstrating that the highest leverage frequently comes from small investments placed at precisely the right moments. These insights and success stories serve as a model that philanthropy cannot ignore.

For too long, the United States has treated poverty as a problem to manage rather than a system to redesign. Here are ways the nonprofit sector can lean in to support economic mobility for families—particularly single mothers and their children. This shift is essential to our collective wellbeing.

Hundreds of people brought candles to New York City’s historic Christopher Street on Friday afternoon for a vigil marking 45 years since the first reported cases of AIDS and protesting cuts to HIV care and public health programs under President Donald Trump.

The New York City AIDS Memorial partnered with numerous health and advocacy groups for a vigil and march through the historic heart of…

Museums offer a transformative opportunity: to document, shape and reshape our knowledge of our own history. But who writes that history?

After losing his 16-year-old daughter LoEshe to gun violence in 1997, Donald Lacy founded the LoveLife Foundation in her memory—and nearly three decades later, finds that the joy she put into the world still sustains the work.

How does Mexico plan to bring free, universal health care for every person in the country, regardless of income or geography, by 2030?

Concerns about Ebola or hantavirus being a new pandemic are rising, but for the millions with Long COVID, we’re still in this one.

Long before formal systems existed, elders carried knowledge, resolved conflict, raised children, and held communities together through hardship and change. Here’s a look at how elders serve as the infrastructure that upholds and sustains our communities.

With severe cuts to public health infrastructure and growing uncertainty about philanthropy's financial footing, nonprofit leaders must think beyond the grant cycle to sustain health equity programs. Here’s how nonprofit leaders and funders can support implementers during unstable times.

In the nonprofit sector, the cost of survival is too often absorbed by the people we ask to lead. Here are insights for funders and nonprofit leaders on how to create a culture shift for restoring wholeness.

Why does the federal Momnibus now only say 'Black' one time? The answer depends on who you ask.

Over a third of family caregivers in the U.S. have disabilities — and are more likely to be caregivers than people without disabilities.

The world’s most polluted countries are located in Africa and Asia, and they’re not receiving their share of philanthropic funding to tackle poor air quality.

A report on The Neighborhood Birth Center in Boston as they get ready to break ground on a physical facility, making good on their promise to birthing people and the communities that support them.

What you need to know about mifepristone’s availability after the Supreme Court's latest ruling, and what to expect next.

Philanthropic institutions collectively control trillions of dollars in assets, much of it accumulated through histories of extraction, colonialism, and racial capitalism—which are still pervasive today. Here’s an analysis of the sector’s investments and five steps philanthropy can take to divest from harming communities.

After threats from the Trump administration, many health systems have stopped providing gender-affirming care to trans youth and adults. Getting access to this care is critical.

The value of reciprocity shapes how some farmers tend to relationships within their community and land stewardship practices, which are forms of collective care.

As the political energy around abortion rights shifts, Alexis McGill Johnson is navigating the future direction of the organization.

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.

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?

One clinic in Miami-Dade County, Florida, offers free midwifery care directly to majority-Black and Latino neighborhoods.

Expanding sanctuary protections does not undermine existing commitments to immigrants but rather strengthens the city’s broader promise of safety.

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.

Movements are often sparked by the fire within, but they endure through ecosystems and community networks that make staying possible. Those networks need to be fully resourced for the long haul.

A flood of recent social media posts described hormonal birth control pills as cancer causing, but the facts are more nuanced than what the posts say.

Mississippi has become a hotspot for these deaths largely because of lax gun laws and restrictive abortion access.

The need for climate-related mental health support is urgent, but many mental health professionals are not climate aware.

Planned Parenthood is a major health care provider for transgender people, but many Medicaid patients are now cut off.

The efforts of educated and socially conscious Black Americans in early 20th-century Detroit provide lessons for advancing health equity today.