The Safety and Justice Challenge is bringing together communities across the country to further efforts to reimagine and rebuild local criminal justice systems to reduce jail incarceration and eliminate racial disparities. In one of the largest expansions of the initiative since it began, the Safety and Justice Challenge is launching…

In 2017, HarvestPlus team members initially shed tears over missing their shot at $100 million to solve ‘hidden hunger’ in Africa. Five years later, the organization is becoming a global force in addressing malnutrition. HarvestPlus, the global program providing nutrient-enriched food crops to people suffering from malnourishment, has a specific…

Action for the Climate Emergency brings young people into the climate movement and creates a ‘rad’ social influencer and activist community. Surrounded by coal-fired power plants and other polluting, planet-warming industries, Tonyisha Harris remembers that kids in her Chicago South Shore neighborhood who did not have asthma were considered weird. …

Ghian Forman and Maria Gaspar, external advisors to the Chicago Commitment team, reflect on their role, building community, and the creativity of imagining Chicago’s future. Tara Magner, Director, Chicago Commitment After serving for four years each as external advisors to the Chicago Commitment team, Ghian Foreman and Maria Gaspar will rotate out of their roles…

Koyel Kumar Mandal, Chief of Programs at Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation, speaks with India Development Review on India’s climate change landscape, the role of civil society organizations, and the path to net-zero. Koyel Kumar Mandal works as Chief of Programs at Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation and provides strategic leadership and…

Upturn does research and advocacy with partners working in communities to advance justice in the use of technology and automation. A police officer in a large city stops someone on the street — likely a person of color, according to research — and asks to search the individual’s phone. The…

MacArthur President John Palfrey shares lessons for philanthropy from a visit to Jordan to see Sesame Workshop’s social-emotional and cognitive education for children displaced and affected by the Syrian conflict. As we mark World Refugee Day, the MacArthur Foundation acknowledges all those displaced by war, climate crises, and myriad other…