Coastal Bend Community Foundation Awards Winter Storm Grants to Local Charities
Foundation: Coastal Bend Community Foundation
The Coastal Bend Community Foundation awarded $150,000 in grants through the Winter Storm Crisis Fund to help agencies with physical damages and those assisting low-income populations who suffered...more

Adapting Old Buildings to Climate Change Requires New Financial Tools
The startup BlocPower uses software to identify buildings that are prime candidates to receive more efficient energy systems. That might mean installing an electric heat pump or a microgrid to...more

A Pioneering Mangrove Conservation Project in Madagascar
Madagascar communities launched the world's largest mangrove carbon conservation project, sequestering a huge amount of carbon and securing an ecosystem vital to fishery health. In partnership...more

Moving Beyond Theories of Change: A Framework for Strategic Implementation
A new Arabella Advisors report titled "Moving Beyond Theories of Change: A Framework for Strategic Implementation," builds upon the work of Senior Managing Director Gwen Walden and her 25 years of...more

Innovative Climate Change Action in Cities Worldwide
The CSR Journal addresses a state of climate emergency around the world. According to this article, climate change action in cities is critical because urban spaces are significant contributors to...more

How Climate Change, Millennials and Tainted Donors are Impacting Philanthropy
In a Johnson Center's 2020 11 Trends in Philanthropy report, it analyzes upcoming and developing issues in the nonprofit industry. According to the report, millennials will make up more than half...more

Why We Can’t Tackle the Climate Crisis Without Addressing Global Inequality
Renat Heuberger, founding partner and CEO of South Pole, writes how a well-designed net-zero strategy must tackle the climate crisis and promote economic opportunities for the less privileged at the...more

Oslo Saw Zero Pedestrian and Cyclist Deaths in 2019
City data for Oslo, Norway, which has a population of about 673,000, show a dramatic reduction in traffic fatalities. According to a story in the Norwegian paper Aftenposten, safety advocates are...more

Stakeholder Capitalism: Intention is the First Step toward Accountability
This article written by CASE Faculty Director Cathy Clark, tackles what do America's CEOs want to change about corporate governance. Clark shares what the Business Roundtable, a lobbying group...more

Greater innovation needed to fight climate change, poverty and hunger
In a report from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, FAO Director-General QU Dongyu addressed solutions to global challenges at SDG2 event of COP25. QU Dongyu...more