Families and Workers Fund provides economic security
The Families and Workers Fund was the first national, multi-donor collaborative philanthropy dedicated to building a more equitable U.S. economy by advancing jobs ...
Community Engagement
Teaming up to tackle food insecurity in Michigan
The Michigan Food Security Funders Collaborative aims to use evidence-based, sustainable initiatives to address food and nutrition insecurity among the 1.5 million families ...
Impact Investing
What do Black and Latino-owned businesses in Detroit need? Access to capital.
TechTown Detroit and ProsperUs Detroit are supporting people of color-owned businesses in building credit histories, providing business services and training and offering micro-lending ...
Health
What can I do when millions of children may potentially become uninsured?
Nearly 40 million kids in the U.S are currently insured through Medicaid and/or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which offers health insurance ...
Health
Trusted messengers play a vital role to increase vaccine rates
There’s a lot of misinformation contributing to vaccine hesitancy. The role that trusted messengers play in a hyper-localized approach is just as important ...
Culturally-centered education campaigns support Native American vaccination efforts
Organizations like Albuquerque Area Southwest Tribal Epidemiology Center and Yee Ha’ólníi Doo are creating culturally centered COVID-19 educational materials on COVID-19 case and ...
Health
Healing through policy: Creating pathways to racial justice
Local leaders can implement policies and practices with immediate, wide-reaching, transformational effects on racial justice.
Health
Community-informed strategies improved Detroit’s COVID response
When COVID-19 hit Detroit in March of 2020, the challenges facing the city were instantly overwhelming and deadly. The city, with a poverty ...
Community Engagement
Farm to early care and education: Lessons from the COVID-19 experience
IN BRIEF Policy Equity Group and the National Farm to School Network recently published Lessons from the COVID-19 Experience, a report to examine ...
Community Engagement
Wisdom of the first educators
In Fall 2020, Village East Elementary School in Colorado’s Cherry Creek Public Schools, planned for its children to return to school in person. ...
