The social and emotional environment in the classroom and school have a profound impact on students' ability and willingness to learn, a report from the Aspen Institute argues. The report, The Practice Base for How We Learn: Supporting Students' Social, Emotional, and Academic Development (20 pages, PDF), offers guidance from the Council of...

Well-planned investments in urban resilience to mitigate the impacts of climate change can also improve a city's economic performance and livability, a report from the Urban Land Institute finds. Funded by the Kresge Foundation and the New York Community Trust, the report, Ten Principles for Building Resilience (44 pages, PDF), outlines the...

Even as the Trump administration pushed for a return to 1990s-era "tough on crime" policies for federal prosecution, state and local criminal justice reform efforts saw significant progress in 2017, a report from the Vera Institute of Justice finds. According to the interactive report, The State of Justice Reform 2017, grassroots campaigns helped...

School districts planning to launch voluntary summer learning programs to address opportunity gaps in learning for low-income children must include targeted recruitment efforts, a report from the Wallace Foundation argues. The Summer Learning Recruitment Guide (11 pages, PDF) highlights lessons learned from five school districts that participated...

Building a collaborative, multidisciplinary research network supports the implementation of effective programs by enabling researchers and policy makers set mutual goals, define shared metrics and protocols, collect meaningful data, and share various perspectives and learnings, a report from the Foundation for Child Development argues. The...

A plurality of millennials believe that advances in technology will reduce the number of jobs in the United States in coming years, a report from the GenForward Project at the University of Chicago finds. Based on a survey of more than seventeen hundred and fifty people between the ages of 18 and 34, the report, Millennials and Technology: An...

Prosperity Together, a coalition of U.S. women's foundations that has pledged $100 million over five years to improve the economic security of low-income women, has disbursed more than $58 million in the first two years of the initiative, a two-year impact report finds. The thirty-two foundations from twenty-six states and the District of...

Funding for arts and culture by a thousand of the largest U.S. foundations in 2015 remained essentially unchanged from the previous year, a report from Grantmakers in the Arts finds. Based on Foundation Center data, the report, Arts Funding Snapshot: GIA's Annual Research on Support for Arts and Culture (13 pages, PDF), found that foundations in...

Global rates of both unintended pregnancy and abortion have declined over the last twenty-five years and the procedure has become safer, a report from the Guttmacher Institute finds. According to the report, Abortion Worldwide 2017: Uneven Progress and Unequal Access (HTML or 68 pages, PDF), there were sixty-two unintended pregnancies per...

Early enriched math instruction in pre-K and kindergarten, especially when sustained over two years, can have a positive effect on low-income children's math skills — a strong predictor of later academic  achievement, a report from MDRC finds. The report, Strengthening Children's Math Skills with Enhanced Instruction: The Impacts of Making...

As it has for a decade, federal funding for public health remained flat in fiscal year 2017, a report from the Trust for America's Health finds. According to A Funding Crisis for Public Health and Safety: State-by-State and Federal Public Health Funding Facts and Recommendations (28 pages, PDF), core funding for the Public Health Emergency...

Residents of Maryland who lack economic opportunities, especially people of color, often find themselves trapped in a cycle of poverty and criminalization simply because they lack the financial resources to meet the demands of the law, a report from the Job Opportunities Task Force finds. The report, The Criminalization of Poverty: How to Break...

Although many U.S. companies are taking steps to address urgent environmental and social issues, progress on those issues is uneven, a report from Ceres finds. The report, Turning Point: Corporate Progress on the Ceres Roadmap for Sustainability (127 pages, PDF), analyzed data from more than six hundred of the largest publicly traded companies in...

The persistent lack of ethnic/racial and gender diversity in the tech industry is the result of structural and social/psychological barriers at every stage of the talent development pipeline, a report from the Kapor Center for Social Impact finds. The report, The Leaky Tech Pipeline: A Comprehensive Framework for Understanding and Addressing the...