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It’s not easy being a corporate CEO these days. Just look at the recent travails of leaders at high profile companies like Boeing or Disney or Starbucks. They, and many others, are struggling to navigate multiple, often competing and invariably vocal, constituencies....

With November’s election looming in the United States, who will be in power is on most of our minds. The election represents a critical window to increase female representation throughout government. Beyond the presidency, women are vying for 21 seats in the Senate,...

From social media feeds to bus depots, messages about the importance of maintaining our physical health are all around us. In contrast, mental health receives far less attention, despite a growing awareness — particularly since COVID-19 — that disorders such as...

Social impact professionals are some of the most extraordinary people on this planet. They work tirelessly to confront injustice, corruption, global pandemics, crumbling democracies, and potentially harmful technological advances — all while designing innovative...

As the old saying goes “Victory has a thousand fathers.” And few victories come as close to that claim as the successes wrought by funders and their grantees.  It takes the concerted effort, partnership, and co-creation of both funders and grantees to effect...

At the heart of the Latino Community Foundation’s (LCF) mission to unleash the civic and economic power of Latinos are our most passionate advocates: the members of our Latino Giving Circle Network®. Now the largest network of Latino philanthropists in the U.S., they...

Summer is heating up and so, too, are efforts to register voters and get out the vote in advance of what is promising to be a tense election season. Not only will voters take to the polls to decide who will represent them in local, state, and federal government, but...

As a global funder, we often hear from, and share with, our peers the challenges of collecting grantee demographic data internationally. This includes questions of how to navigate different legal landscapes in terms of what data we are allowed to collect; how to...