Meet Mikaila Ulmer, bee advocate and teenage CEO
Her advice to anyone trying to start a business is simple: Be fearless. Believe in the impossible. And dream like a kid. At 15, Mikaila Ulmer is sharing her…
Leveling the playing field for students with learning differences
Microsoft employees partnered across teams to develop free learning tools that can help anyone—particularly students with learning differences—improve their reading skills. One in five students struggles with dyslexia, which can…
Wake Up America | We Are Better Than This Elijah Cummings
Date: October, 2019 Publication: TEDxMidAtlantic
full documentary | Huntington, West Virginia | Opioid Epidemic
Dark States – Heroin Town
The opioid epidemic or opioid crisis is the rapid increase in the use of prescription and non-prescription opioid drugs in the United States and Canada in the 2010s. Opioids are a diverse class of moderately strong painkillers,…
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How To Make Expensive Cities Affordable for Everyone Again
Recently, we wrote about a new report from the California Legislative Analyst's Office that found that poorer neighborhoods that have added more market-rate housing in the Bay Area since 2000 have been less…
Community | Crime and Safety | Education | Employment | Empowerment | Equity | Financial Freedom | Training | Wellness
Why The Ford Foundation Launched a Program for Formerly Incarcerated People
In late 2015, Darren Walker approached the foundation’s Talent and Human Resources team and asked us to create a professional development program for graduates of the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI).…
Student parent to graduate, her son by her side
Graduating senior Dajanaye Adrow-Hubbard always knew she was destined for college. She grew up in Oakland in a low-income family and knew that her ticket to a more comfortable lifestyle…
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Hidden-Figures
One of the most toxic attempts to dismiss the prevalence of racism is what Jenée Desmond-Harris calls “vanity sizing for racism,” the idea that a large number of Americans cannot…
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor pays a visit
If student reaction is any gauge, Sonia Sotomayor is more than a role model for aspiring lawyers; she’s a revered symbol of what’s possible. The scrappy lawyer turned U.S.…