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Getty Images Good Morning. If you’ve been ignoring the discussion about infrastructure legislation in Washington, you might want to rethink that: Nonprofits are advocating successfully in many cases for their priorities to become part of President Biden’s next big legislative push. Now they are seeking even more. Already, priorities that would help the people nonprofits serve have been included in Biden’s $2 trillion plan, such as improvements for transportation, health care, and community care of the elderly. But now nonprofits hope the next phase of the Biden plan will offer grants to help nonprofits avoid layoffs and improve the ....
Print When a few hundred thousand California homes and businesses lost power for several hours last summer, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz wrote that the Golden State “is now unable to perform even basic functions of civilization, like having reliable electricity.” What Texans have experienced over the last few days was far worse. More than 4 million homes and businesses saw their electricity shut off as a powerful cold snap sent temperatures into the single digits, driving up demand for heating while simultaneously freezing much of the energy infrastructure that would normally keep people warm. Rolling blackouts began in the wee hours of Monday morning and continued into Tuesday evening. ....
SHARE Photo courtesy of Christina @ wocintechchat.com via Unsplash Experts around the world are sounding the alarm on the pandemic’s disproportionate impact on women’s lives. As UN Women reports, “The impacts of crises are never gender-neutral, and COVID-19 is no exception.” Economically and beyond, we are beginning to see counter effects on progress toward gender equity. Recent data from McKinsey & Co. shows that women’s jobs are almost twice as vulnerable during this crisis than men’s jobs and account for 54 percent of overall job losses (despite making up 39 percent of global employment). Of course, these issues aren’t new. In the years before the pandemic, we saw growing media attention on the importance of investing in women and girls from their education to their health and future. Yet funding for these organizations has historically been challenging to quantify. At the Women’s Philanthropy Institute (WPI), we wanted to better understand wh ....